University of Edinburgh report calls for data and AI skills to be central to UK industrial strategy

Data and AI skills should be part of a 'sustained' national industrial strategy according to a new report published by the University of Edinburgh.

Academic experts have urged ministers not to treat investment into data and AI skills as part of 'discretionary' education spending, and to ensure it is 'foundational' to the national economic development plans.

The new Governing the Future: Recommendations from the Edinburgh Data and AI Exchange, published today, emerged from a cross-sector event which set out the 'practical priorities' for Scottish and UK governments