The booming British industry that faces wipeout this year as we sleepwalk towards AI disaster

Don’t tell Liam and Noel, but the biggest entertainment event of 2025 won’t be their reunion, it’ll be the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI. “If we want GTA VI’s successor to be made in the UK, it’s vital we don’t surrender to AI,” he says. But the consultation’s objective is also “ensuring AI developers have access to high-quality material to train leading AI models in the UK and support innovation across the UK AI sector”. It’s a flaw in enforcement.” The sixth game in the Grand Theft Auto series will be released in 2025 We appear to be moving rapidly from a system that relies on the default of licensing to one that assumes an automatic right to use published material for AI unless the creator has exercised their right to be excluded. “But they could focus instead on winning a different race: to be the prime movers not in ‘AI for its own sake’ but in ‘Responsible AI’ that is both ethical and sustainable.” Keir Starmer and his colleagues must choose between protecting a UK creative industries sector that really does conform to their economic growth agenda, or seeing it subsumed in the name of global progress in tech.