The UK’s national AI institute is in crisis. Despite receiving a fresh £100 million funding settlement in 2024, the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) is gearing up for mass redundancies and to cut a quarter of its research projects. Staff are in open revolt.In 2023, when generative AI fever swept the world, far from taking centre stage, the ATI found itself playing defence. A report from the Tony Blair Institute argued that:While industry figures have predicted some advances and privately warned of ma...