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Talk to the Chatbot: UK Will Replace 'Dogsbody' Civil Servants with AI

The UK Cabinet Office is harnessing the skills of artificial intelligence (AI) to cut the size of the civil service and slash its multi-billion pound wages bill.

Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister and Cabinet Office secretary,  announced his plans to expand the use of AI to drive efficiencies across all government and public sector institutions in an address to reporters on Wednesday.

Dowden said adopting AI could be a "significant downward driver" in reducing the civil service headcount, with the government looking to cut 66,000 jobs by the end of the next Spending Review.

His prediction of AI domination comes as the rest of the world rushes down a similar path with mixed results.

For example, allowing AI a role in decisions about welfare abuse and asylum claims would be controversial given the way algorithms have been shown to amplify racial bias, the Financial Times reports.

A childcare benefit scandal in the Netherlands, which forced the government to resign in 2021, involved racial profiling that was "baked into" the design of the self-learning algorithm that flagged potentially fraudulent claims, according to Amnesty International.

Just who chatbots ultimately report to is a further point of debate.

Despite the controversy Dowden is convinced AI is the only way forward.

"It really is the only way, I think, if we want to get on a sustainable path to headcount reduction," Dowden said

Full story : https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/01/talk-to-the-chatbot-uk-will-replace-dogsbody-civil-servants-with-ai/

Of course in the unlikely event this develops into anything more than a money pit that produces almost nothing 5 years on all that would be reduced is the low end staff. You can guarantee that none of the Sir Humphrys  would be reduced in the least. If there were any chance of that it would never get off the ground at all.