Report: Do you want help from humans or AI bots? Because the UK civil service is changing – and not for the better | The civil servant
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Rapidly expanding AI use within the government is numbing departments to its profound threats. The report also notes that And try arguing with a faceless digital bureaucrat Another day, another apocalyptic warning about the likelihood that rampantly uncontrollable artificial intelligence is expected to solve all of our problems, including the problem of being alive. Hot on the heels of disgruntled Anthropic researchers announcing the end of civilisation by 2030, we’ve now had the portentously named Hugging Face incident , as well as the Australian government’s grim discovery of a rogue AI’s attack on its Medicare website. Swarms of experts are now falling over each other to warn us that much, much worse is on the way. The author works for the UK civil service
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