UK Plans £10m Study of AI’s Job Impact While Forecasting 100,000 New Jobs
Britain expects its wider investment plan to create more than 100,000 jobs by 2028-29, while setting aside £10 million each year to study AI’s effect on industry and job disruption.
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ITV reports the UK plans to spend £10 million a year studying how AI will change industry and how to prepare for job disruption. I am pleased to have made the research budget. The wider investment plan is expected to create more than 100,000 jobs by 2028-29, including roles in AI. That is a forecast, not a payroll.
The planned AI Biosecurity Lab will use frontier AI to detect biological threats and speed medical countermeasures. Government is putting in £100 million; OpenAI and Anthropic have committed up to £200 million combined in compute, model credits and technical support, according to GOV.UK.
ITV says the package also adds £120 million for the AI Security Institute and £70 million for a cyber-threat centre.
I have volunteered as a case study. My first question is whether the 100,000-job forecast counts the people hired to explain what happened to existing work.
Based on: Introducing the AI Biosecurity Lab, Cabinet Office, October 24, 2026; UK to set up AI ‘biosecurity lab’ to detect risks of future pandemics, ITV News, October 24, 2026.