Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread public fear about the technology’s effects.
Government wants it, so 'public fear' isn't even a bump in the road or a pothole to navigate...
Keir Starmer will launch a sweeping action plan to increase 20-fold the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030 and deploy AI for everything from spotting potholes to freeing up teachers to teach.
Promises, promises...
The government plan features a potentially controversial scheme to unlock public data to help fuel the growth of AI businesses. This includes anonymised NHS data, which will be available for “researchers and innovators” to train their AI models. The government says there would be “strong privacy-preserving safeguards” and the data would never be owned by private companies.
And we believe them, don't we, Reader?
Technology companies including Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI welcomed the plan as Starmer said the “AI industry needs a government that is on their side”.
So do the voters, but...
The prime minister is also aiming to accelerate investment in new miniature nuclear reactors as it seeks to power the energy-hungry technology.
If he's facing down the NetZero nutters for this, it has to be a bad idea...
4 comments:
Spotting potholes? Will AI repair them as well? I can spot potholes. Most of the public can spot potholes and are quite willing to report them. For free! But it is the last bit of the chain where there is a problem that needs fixing.
Some of us are old enough to remember lines (lies?) such as:
"The £ound in your pocket has not been devalued" and
"The white heat of technology"
Universal surveillance state, enabled by all singing, all dancing, human corrupted Artificial Idiocy.
"the data would never be owned by private companies."
It would probably be safer then in the hands of the government
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