I'm all for it... in principle. An actual public-service answer to for-profit LLMs should absolutely be an option, if not the go-to solution. But given our UK leadership and their flagrant disregard of said public, I'm not so sure.

London is an AI research hotspot, which is great, sure, but that's also what I'm worried about. The current state apparatus lends itself to a culture of dictatorship by consultancy, which ultimately stifles public interest and agency.