To think we're fucked? Given that our government (s) couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery going by recent history....

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai

An open invitation to tech bros to plunder our coffers and for yet more algorithmic surveillance and interference.

Oh joy.

I don’t know. Maybe if we had a government made up of AI they would do a better job.
(and I include past and present government and most prop future governments in that statement)
At least there would be no lying, cheating, greed, abuse, cover ups etc.

Jokes aside yes it’s concerning

All of this is terrifying.

I cringed all the way through reading that crappy article. God help us all this lot don’t know their arse from their elbow. It would be funny if it wasn’t serious.

The robot takeover is coming

Good God this is horrific

I actually think that's the best thing I've heard from this government. It's ambitious, forward-thinking and actually represents a meaningful investment in the future. More of this, please.

Bollocks.

The reality is, AI is the latest big frontier and breakthrough technology, for better or for worse (or likely, both). The genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no putting it back.

Given (all) govt record for disastrous IT projects - Post Office, Integrated Patient Records etc, the thought of future policy making based on AI is very worrying.

AI is best used where the same task has to be performed repeatedly, many times, so decision making can be based on a huge data set. Hardly true of governmental policy making.

It would just be an offload of responsibility, and laziness

Chat GPT is that you?

The thing is, much stuff doesn’t actually need Gen AI if you haven’t got be basics - it’s a fallacy and hype - bunch of stuff can be done well using trad AI models and data management / reporting etc

My concern is that many orgs in the public sector have no idea where the “frontier” is in basic stuff (whether intentionally or through not being leaders) and so this lends itself to being taken down the garden road by high cost suppliers who spout fancy stuff to people who have no idea

The hospital I work at is so tech averse it blocks ITS OWN Facebook page on our network. Yep, this is going to go great....

If my new computer boss is better than my micromanaging bully of a boss, I'm up for it.

(Seriously though, my daughter wants to go into a creative industry and she's already thinking how she's going to have to set herself apart from this AI shit.)

Hopefully they will just use it for detecting potholes, surely not much can go wrong there

You vote for muppets, you get muppets.

Yanbu. I have a friend who works in a govt team trying to implement AI and at best she and her colleagues could be described as "enthusiastic amateurs".

Post horizon etc I would have expected a bit more reflection before rushing headlong into this

I don’t think they know what they’re doing on anything so may as well chuck this in there

Not sure about health care and prime prevention. But DH and I have been using ChatGPT to scan DC's knowledge organisers from secondary, and generate practice sheets. We use it to generate homework exercises. It's actually really great if people know how to use it.

We also use it on holidays to scan menu at restaurants.

Both of us use it at work. It's part of the tool kit now.

They've got nothing left to see and we don't seem to be able to give incentives to produce so they are desperate
They are selling us and our data. They are so desperate they won't put appropriate safeguards in place

Ah, so all of the many people who have been loudly and repeatedly complaining about potholes and reporting them all - some have even had birthday parties organised by locals after being left for a year unfixed - couldn't get the message across?

Is this the government's version of pretending that thousands of women have never said anything about an important topic, because they only listen when a man says it?

This is the very definition of trying to fatten a pig by constantly weighing it.

And these things are always introduced and sold as being for simple, uncontroversial things, but they never stop there.

Sorry, not getting at you personally; just annoyed at a government - all governments - clearly assuming that we're all stupid.

AI is already everywhere, we’re already using it every day.

A government that understands new technologies and welcomes investments is a good thing