Government & Industry Programme Offers Free AI Training for All

Every adult in the UK is eligible to take free, newly benchmarked courses through AI Skills Boost to gain practical AI skills for work. A new UK government and industry programme is expanding to provide 10 million workers with key AI skills by 2030.

To make Britain the fastest adopting AI country in the G7, the UK is setting ambitious targets to ensure the workforce is adequately skilled, confident and ready to grasp the full opportunities of AI. 

This could create more higher-skilled jobs and free workers up from routine tasks, with increasing the adoption of AI potentially unlocking up to £140 billion in annual economic output as part of our plans for national renewal.

A selection of industry-developed AI courses, newly available on government’s AI Skills Hub, have been checked against Skills England’s AI foundation skills for work benchmark, with those who complete these courses receiving a virtual AI foundations badge. 

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give people the skills needed to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace and teach the use of AI for tasks like drafting text, creating content and completing administrative tasks, to free up time to focus on other work. 

This training will give both workers and employers confidence in their new skills, and set standards for what good AI upskilling looks like.

To ensure that UK workers benefit from the changes AI will bring, they are also launching a new cross-government unit to advise on AI’s economic and labour market impact. And providing £27 million funding to connect people to tech jobs in local communities, and create new professional practice courses and graduate traineeship.

Visit the AI Skills Hub website to find our more and sign up for free and paid AI Skills Boost training.

Read the full press release about this inititiative on the dotGov website.