Also: the output of "generative AI", synthetic text, is NOT information. So, UK friends, if your government is actually using it to respond to freedom of information requests, they are presumably violating their own laws about freedom of information requests. /3

(This answer to my freedom of information request is raising a lot of questions not already answered in this answer to my freedom of information request...) /4

@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.