US EditionBarnsley Named UK’s First Tech Town to Pilot AI in Schools, NHS, and Business
Barnsley will pilot AI in education, healthcare, and business to boost productivity and improve public services, with government backing to guide UK-wide AI adoption.
- This week, Barnsley was named the UK's first Tech Town, securing government backing to pilot AI tutoring in schools, provide free AI training, and trial tools in the NHS.
- The move comes after recent national AI steps, as Barnsley's ambitions aim to show AI's benefits in learning, business, and public services following the UK government's free AI courses and Lanarkshire, Scotland's AI growth zone.
- Local leaders welcomed the designation, and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will visit Barnsley alongside UK chief executives of Microsoft and Cisco, pledging support, to help achieve the town's tech ambitions.
- Local organisations will receive bespoke government support to trial AI tools in local schools, the local college, local businesses, and NHS services in Barnsley, while Barnsley residents will be invited to `Tech Town Halls` to shape AI use.
- Experts on frontier technology warn AI can deepen inequalities or open doors for left-behind communities, with Rotherham's advanced manufacturing cluster as an example of industrial reinvention.
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Barnsley can be at the coalface of innovation as Britain’s first-ever Tech Town
Barnsley being named Britain’s first-ever Tech Town is to be welcomed for a multitude of reasons. Local schools, the local college, businesses and the NHS will be amongst the organisations to get bespoke Government support to unleash opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Government ordains Barnsley as ‘UK’s first Tech Town’ and plans local AI blitz
DSIT has unveiled a new initiative to offer support intended to ensure ‘communities left behind by the economic changes of the 20th century can seize the benefits of the 21st’ As part of a newly unveiled ‘Tech Towns’ initiative, the government has pledged investment and hands-on help to help Barnsley “unleash opportunities of AI”. As the South Yorkshire town’s public services and businesses stive to get the most out of artificial intelligence an…
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