I can imagine doing statisical analysis of prescription databases to help identify patterns of error and then using that information to reduce error rates. Given the rest of this article though, I have no reason to believe they aren't planning to just 'ask ChatGPT'.

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@emilymbender

It's used both ways... certainly it's a silver bullet to the problem of having a functional govt.

Also, 'crack squad.' Is this in reference to their skills or their diet?

But this sentence. This sentence alone gives me the screaming heebies and the wailing jeebies.

AI pilots are already taking place in many areas of health, such as diagnostics, tailoring medicine to individuals based on genetics, and tackling prescription error and fraud.

Because that's a great and wonderful area of opportunity, isn't it? Test out a highly error-prone, biased, tapeworm-filled system on something like means testing and then, even when it turns out to have more false positives than a dodgy RADAR system looking at a flock of geese, start rolling it out to the government at large under the umbrella of ostensible austerity.

This white elephant's going to cost the government a lot more than £900mn, and it's going to cost the people the government ostensibly serves even more.

@emilymbender Classically the silver bullet as a catch-all monster-slaying tool is presented without judgement.

But the engineering adage is that "there are no silver bullets" owing to the idea that no meaningful problems have a single tech-based cause, so no single tech-based solution is sufficient.