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 watched Starmer's AI speech in it's entirety; seemed ok - a bit cap in hand to 'business' but what's a boy (PM) to do given AI is the new 'wave'. Hopefully it's not too connected to the Chancellor's visit to China in terms of AI business.

I'm intrigued by his suggestion that AI can fill potholes quicker as I've long suspected that it's the many layers of 'human admin' that currently hinders the repairs, not the actual people who fill the potholes. And then there would hardly be a need for this LA admin strata and the axe should fall.

I can also see the possibilities for using AI to develop individualised education and lesson plans for the vast number of pupils with SEND currently in mainstream education. It would certainly lift a load from teachers.

However, until we make use of our recent Lithium finds (in Cornwall) we're always going to be on the back foot with China.

I'm more than happy to main line ai but right now?
Ai has exploded in the past year two years etc but with even air fryers spying on us, is it the best thing to do right now?
I'm not sure how we can be melting safe at this moment?

@Barney16 that's correct my niece was see by a hospital at one end of the country and her doctor couldn't act on anything until the paper work literally arrived.

No one poor abused children are falling down cracks if all systems are different

Nobody could make a worse mess than Liz Truss. IMHO.

Leaving aside the technical impossibilities of what Starmer’s promising, this is fascinating on a political level.

It’s a modern day version of Harold Wilson’s ‘white heat of technology’ speech. That went nowhere as a government initiative. Technological advances were and are driven by the private sector. All a government can do is get out of the way as far as possible.

This jargon-ridden cobblers - delivered by a suitably robotic man - will go the same way as Wilson’s vision: down a pothole.

Oh forgot one….

Bridget Philipson, a woman so talentless that only her mother would employ her. That too, in a charity.

Potholes are already reported, immediately, by pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. Doesn't need AI to spot them.
I can guarantee that every single one of the things has more than one report already waiting at the local council.

I fear the country will be potholes scarred as people call to complain and are told the AI sees no pothole and therefore nothing to fix

that was such a daft example to use which suggests a very superficial understanding of what he wants to introduce

Labour are presenting this with a flourish as a 'policy' but the reality is that AI is flooding in whether we like it or not; all Labour are doing is swimming with the tide.