Rise of the robot civil servants: AI could take over more than 8 out of 10 repetitive jobs performed by government services, study claims
- At least 120 million tasks across government have potential to be automated
- This would save hundreds of thousands of hours of manual work by human staff
From processing passports to registering to vote, at least 120 million tasks across government have the potential to be automated.
Every minute AI helped cut per transaction would save hundreds of thousands of hours of manual work by human staff.
As long as you don't mind your passport coming back with a photo of a black man.
ReplyDelete"At least 120 million tasks across government have potential to be automated
ReplyDeleteThis would save hundreds of thousands of hours of manual work by human staff"
So would abolishing many of the tasks. They've spent years building a job creation scheme, so let's try a job destruction scheme.
dearieme - good point, or it could be wound back too far and show a chap like me as an albino with pink eyes.
ReplyDeleteSam - they hate job destruction so perhaps it implies they intend to regulate the value out of it.
It might save time, but it won't save money. Any civil servant that finds their job is no longer needed will not be fired, they will be made into managers
ReplyDeleteI read Fleabay ads regularly: they've recently added an "AI" option to the sellers page. The dreadful results read like a stepdown from "Danger, Will Robinson"
ReplyDeleteLooks very much like the re-pleb-isation of humanity to me.
ReplyDeleteThe Jannie - I buy a lot of stuff off ebay and I agree, those AI descriptions in adverts are truly awful
ReplyDeleteBucko - yes that's what they do, I've seen it often enough over the years.
ReplyDeleteJannie - quite a few mainstream media headlines are like that now. Third-rate clickbait.
James - or even over-plebbing.
All this proposed job destruction will come just in time for the plunging population numbers.
ReplyDeleteTammly - good point, and that may be the long-term thinking.
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