The UK government has announced cuts to the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme that provides support for promising mathematicians to make them excel. Many in the UK maths and education community are up in arms, arguing that that this will cut off the very AI innovation Prime Minister Keir Starmer says we most need. Is it an ideological "anti-elitist" cut, or a failure to understand the connection between maths and AI? Or are they planning to switch the funding to back a modern, advanced, computer-based maths alternative?
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