{"slug": "what-will-burnham-do-on-ai", "title": "What will Burnham do on AI?", "summary": "POLITICO UK tech editor Isobel Asher Hamilton discusses with Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy the AI choices facing the new UK prime minister, including whether Britain should build the next OpenAI or use AI to revive manufacturing, and how to compete with the US and China on issues from copyright to data centres and the future of work.", "body_md": "Listen on\n\nArtificial intelligence could transform the economy, the workplace, and even the way we think — but is Britain ready for it? And is Andy Burnham?\n\nIn the second of Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy’s summer box set conversations, they sit down with POLITICO UK tech editor Isobel Asher Hamilton to look at the choices facing the new prime minister this autumn.\n\nShould Britain be building the next OpenAI, or focusing on using AI to revive manufacturing? Can the UK compete with the US and China? And where will the government land on the biggest political battles ahead, from copyright and data centres to the future of work?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-will-burnham-do-on-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.politico.eu/podcast/politics-at-sam-and-annes/what-will-burnham-do-on-ai/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication", "published_at": "2026-08-10 06:55:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 07:20:16.985360+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["POLITICO UK", "Isobel Asher Hamilton", "Sam Coates", "Anne McElvoy", "OpenAI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-will-burnham-do-on-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-will-burnham-do-on-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-will-burnham-do-on-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-will-burnham-do-on-ai.jsonld"}}