'Artificial intelligence is a gigantic challenge for whoever is in power'

26 March 2024 , 23:24

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A new study highlights the challenge posed by artificial intelligence

Tackle AI revolution

The sheer scale of the upheaval created by the rise of artificial intelligence is a gigantic challenge for whoever is in power. It’s said that up to eight million UK workers could be replaced within the next five years.

Change at that pace would be equivalent to the first Industrial Revolution if nearly 60% of tasks currently performed by humans was handed to computers. A concerted drive to reskill and retrain those whose jobs are made redundant is required as is democratising AI and determining who controls and benefits from the technology.

Secretaries, call centre staff, data inputters and even authors may be far more at risk than the likes of electricians, carpenters, teachers and barristers but AI must be owned by all of us to spread the benefits. New regulations and laws are necessary yet quelling AI would be a mistake, which is why we need to start that informed public debate.

Rats jump ship

To lose one Minister may be seen as a misfortune for Rishi Sunak but to lose two on a single day is a stampede for the exit. Defence Minister James Heappey and Skills Minister Robert Halfon quitting was a double blow for a PM losing control of his party.

Both are jumping before they would very likely be pushed by the electorate, as they were tipped to lose their seats in the next election. With more than 60 Tory MPs stepping down, it’s clear the Conservative ranks expect to be ousted from power by Keir Starmer ’s Labour. The rats abandoning a sinking ship leave Sunak a captain without a crew.

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Telly jeanius

North Korea’s state TV censored Alan Titchmarsh’s trousers to weed out his jeans on a gardening programme. Dictator Kim Jong-Un’s thought police viewing denim as a symbol of Western imperialism were probably also worried workers in the impoverished country would revolt because the garment had no holes or patches.

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