Willis is now urging situating US software products at the heart of management and presumably decision making in the public sector, falsely implying households and businesses are already using US AI heavily, herself a mouthpiece for the generic exaggerations of Technological Determinism and Inevitablism.
It's not completely infeasible that the same gov would eventually propose replacing entire ministries with foreign chatbots.
A sad and grisly state of affairs when the Justice Minister says he uses an Anglo-US sycophantic chatbot "for its opinions on ideas he has". Meanwhile Seymour seems to think these US software products can replace our public servants.
And Willis, who demands that staffers "unleash" AI across their work, indeed I predicted badly that would first come from Luxon, but it is true he has few ideas of his own, and so here we are regardless.
Comforting to see some clear-headed and educated criticism from thinking people in this article on the absurd and destructive proposition of replacing expert public servants with chatbots.
Professor's Alexandra Andhov and Jeannie Paterson especially. Power to them.
Julian Oliver
