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Free AI training for all adults launched as Government seek to teach Brits to use tech
The UK aims to boost productivity by upskilling 10 million workers with short AI courses and a government-backed AI foundations badge by 2030, addressing low confidence in AI use.
- Soon, the UK government will launch free AI training for all adults via an upgraded AI Skills Hub to upskill 10 million workers by 2030 with support from Google, Microsoft and IBM.
- Research shows only 21% of UK workers feel confident using AI, while ministers say improving skills could unlock up to £140bn a year and just one in six businesses use it.
- The programme awards a government-backed "virtual AI foundations badge" and has delivered more than one million courses covering drafting, content creation, and admin automation in under 20 minutes.
- Ministers warn the scheme depends on business and worker uptake, and Liz Kendall, secretary of state for science, said, `We want AI to work for Britain, and that means ensuring Britons can work with AI.`
- Amid ambition, high-profile errors raise safety concerns as ministers hope Britain becomes the fastest AI adopter in the G7 despite Microsoft Copilot's 'AI hallucination' and Grok AI chatbot criticism.
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The Independent (US)Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
There are concerns about workers misusing the technology.
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