--- title: Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI... description: Kanishka Narayan has been elevated to the UK's first cabinet-level AI minister under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The appointment coincides with the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kanishka-narayan-becomes-the-uk-s-first-cabinet-level-ai-minister-ruivfhtvd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI minister | daily.dev og:description: Kanishka Narayan has been elevated to the UK's first cabinet-level AI minister under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The appointment coincides with the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kanishka-narayan-becomes-the-uk-s-first-cabinet-level-ai-minister-ruivfhtvd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RuIvFHTVD.png og:image:alt: Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI minister og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI minister **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kanishka Narayan has been elevated to the UK's first cabinet-level AI minister under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The appointment coincides with the abolition of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), whose remit is folded into a new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. Narayan, MP for Vale of Glamorgan since July 2024, brings a background spanning civil service, investment banking, Stanford MBA, and venture capital. His priorities include long-delayed AI legislation for frontier models, compute capacity, AI growth zones, and a sovereign UK AI model. The move places Britain alongside France and Canada in giving AI a senior political seat at the cabinet table. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Who is the UK's first cabinet-level AI minister? Kanishka Narayan, MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, became the first UK minister for artificial intelligence to sit at the cabinet table. He previously served as a junior minister for AI and online safety and was appointed by new prime minister Andy Burnham as part of a Whitehall reorganisation announced when Burnham took office on 21 July. _Anyone tracking how governments are structuring AI oversight can follow policy shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### What happened to the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)? DSIT was scrapped and its remit folded into a new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade under Jonathan Reynolds, with online safety and digital duties moved to other departments. The change came as part of prime minister Andy Burnham's reshuffle, ending the standalone science department less than two years after its creation. _Developers and founders watching UK tech policy shifts can keep up with these regulatory changes on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-ai-minister-says-ai-testing-is-not-enough-fortune-reports-d2uepf5yg) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK names first AI town, declines to comment on jobs impact](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-names-first-ai-town-declines-to-comment-on-jobs-impact-eishntd2h) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Australia sets up a national Office of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/australia-sets-up-a-national-office-of-ai-1hokcc2bw) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ai-governance](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-governance), [#ai-regulation](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-regulation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/kanishka-narayan-becomes-the-uk-s-first-cabinet-level-ai-minister-ruivfhtvd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI minister","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kanishka-narayan-becomes-the-uk-s-first-cabinet-level-ai-minister-ruivfhtvd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/kanishka-narayan-becomes-the-uk-s-first-cabinet-level-ai-minister-ruivfhtvd"},"datePublished":"2026-07-21T11:37:45.906Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:50:20.366Z","description":"Kanishka Narayan has been elevated to the UK's first cabinet-level AI minister under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. 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