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title: "UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan says AI is set to add £55B to £140B to the economy by 2030, below a £400B estimate from a Google-led report touted by officials (Ben Gartside/Wired)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/uk-ai-minister-kanishka-narayan-says-ai-is-set-to-add-55b-to-140b-to-8bdae042
published: 2026-11-04T14:20:04.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan says AI is set to add £55B to £140B to the economy by 2030, below a £400B estimate from a Google-led report touted by officials (Ben Gartside/Wired)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-04 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/uk-ai-minister-kanishka-narayan-says-ai-is-set-to-add-55b-to-140b-to-8bdae042

Ben Gartside / Wired : UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan says AI is set to add £55B to £140B to the economy by 2030, below a £400B estimate from a Google-led report touted by officials — The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country's slow rate of adoption

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## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261104/p32#a261104p32)

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