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Martha DacombeProgramme Manager – Technology & State Capacity
Martha Dacombe
Martha DacombeProgramme Manager – Technology & State Capacity
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Martha Dacombe leads work on technology and state capacity at the Centre for British Progress. She was previously Emerging Technologies Policy Lead at Startup Coalition, where she led policy development on AI, compute, and other novel technologies on behalf of Britain's tech startup ecosystem. She read Human, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and is a columnist for Arguably.

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Dominant strategies for Britain in the Age of AI

September 18, 2026
Julia WillemynsMartha DacombeEd Lawrence
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On its current course, Britain will be defenceless against the transformative effects of AI and have little leverage over development at the frontier. Our three dominant strategies would build that leverage, let the economy capture value from AI and prepare the state to adapt, however AI develops.

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