Digital Future Daily

Now, our POLITICO U.K. colleague Tom Bristow has gotten a peek at a British government document with new details of London’s ideas for a trade pact with the U.S. It offers a look at how a new global AI consensus could take shape — with much less worry about safety, and much more concern about security and tech dominance.

What’s in the document? The paper outlines the pitch the U.K. plans to make to the U.S., and it echoes rhetoric used by Vance and Trump that countries must choose whether to side with or against the U.S. on tech policy. It talks about combining British and American “strengths” so that Western democracies can win the tech race — language that British Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has increasingly started to use in recent weeks — and signals ever-closer alignment with the U.S. on tech.

The document outlines Britain’s ambitions for an “economic partnership” on technology. It pitches the case by pointing out that the U.S. and U.K. are the only two allies in the world with trillion-dollar tech industries, and emphasizes the importance of Western democracies beating rivals to cutting-edge breakthroughs.