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AI is our Business. Looking at how businesses are using AI to build services and tools, transforming organisations and delighting consumers. We explore the different types of businesses that are emerging and find out how they are using AI technology. UKAI is the trade association for AI businesses in the UK. The show is hosted Tim Flagg, AI entrepreneur and chief executive of UKAI. Featuring business leaders, policymakers, authors, politicians and entrepreneurs. Join us to learn how to build your AI business.
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Most companies are still treating AI like software and that may be why so many struggle to turn promising pilots into enterprise value. The shift to agentic AI changes the equation: autonomous agents can execute work, make decisions and pursue objectives, which means organisations need to think less about deploying tools and more about redesigning how work gets done. That brings operating models, accountability, governance and workforce strategy firmly into the AI conversation. Ray Welsh, an...
AI adoption is soaring, so why are half of users saving no time at all? Deloitte’s new GenAI Workforce survey of 25,000 UK workers exposes a growing gap between access to generative AI and meaningful business impact. While 63% of workers have used AI at work, only 12% use it multiple times a day. The result is a workforce of AI “dabblers”, where headline adoption figures can mask limited changes to how work actually gets done. Ben Stanton, argues the productivity problem isn’t primarily the ...
Are AI data centres really about to consume Britain’s power and water, or are the headline numbers hiding a very different story? Spencer argues that some of the biggest assumptions about AI infrastructure need challenging. While around 80GW of data-centre power requests have reportedly entered the UK connection queue, he estimates genuine AI-related demand could be closer to 10GW over the next five to ten years. He also explains why UK cooling systems can look very different from the water-i...
What happens to consulting when AI can do in days what teams of consultants used to spend months delivering? Neil argues that AI is rapidly collapsing the cost and time of traditional software and services, forcing businesses to rethink where value actually sits. Instead of starting with models, agents or productivity targets, companies should focus relentlessly on measurable outcomes: revenue growth, lower costs and reduced risk. The winning model is “compound interest AI”: deploy small, hig...
This week Tim gets a ride at the buzzy Uber x Wayve robotaxi launch in London ("AI on wheels" and, "a real milestone for the British AI industry"), digs into the £100m government fund backing British AI startups, unpacks the Matt Clifford-to-Anthropic conflict-of-interest row, pushes back on calls for a data centre moratorium, and covers Nvidia's $12.9bn Hugging Face buy, new AI "kill switch" bills in the UK and US, and Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville's campaign to protect actors' voices from ...
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