Government plans to build AI agent to help citizens with ‘life admin’
Leading firms have been invited to join civil service tech experts to start work on a prototype of a ‘helper’ that ministers hope could be rolled out to the populace
Government has proposed a state-run “AI agent” that citizens could deploy to help with day-to-day administrative tasks.
At the start of this week, government invited representatives of companies specialised in agentic artificial intelligence to “team up with in-house Whitehall experts to test this technology together”. Ministers hope that, over the next six to 12 months, firms will support the creation of a prototype agent by taking steps “to share their expertise and dedicate AI specialists to… a hybrid team” where they will work alongside civil servants.
The ultimate aim is to create a government-run tool that would be available to the public to “take on boring life admin by dealing with public services on your behalf – from filling in forms to completing applications and booking appointments”.
Leading firms have been invited to join civil service tech experts to start work on a prototype of a ‘helper’ that ministers hope could be rolled out to the populace
Government has proposed a state-run “AI agent” that citizens could deploy to help with day-to-day administrative tasks.
At the start of this week, government invited representatives of companies specialised in agentic artificial intelligence to “team up with in-house Whitehall experts to test this technology together”. Ministers hope that, over the next six to 12 months, firms will support the creation of a prototype agent by taking steps “to share their expertise and dedicate AI specialists to… a hybrid team” where they will work alongside civil servants.
The ultimate aim is to create a government-run tool that would be available to the public to “take on boring life admin by dealing with public services on your behalf – from filling in forms to completing applications and booking appointments”.
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George Orwell - 1984 (1949)
8 comments:
I wonder if the bureaucrats will realise that introducing AI Agents could result in fewer bureaucrat jobs? If you see mentions of 'working parties' and 'steering groups' being set up I expect the AI Agents will be nobbled from the start.
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help": according to Ronald Reagan is the scariest sentence ever . . .
I tried an AI site to find ways of answering cryptic crossword clues. The answers were pathetic, with almost childish/idiotic responses, and also no regard to instructions for the numbers of letters or words!
Ah well, back to the drawing board...
This is doomed to fail. Because it's a government project and that AI ship has already sailed in the UK. They might buy something from Tesla, say.
An AI to deal with bureaucracy! More like a way to create even more of it. I call it the tl;dr machine: LLMs are very good ways to churn out those pointless documents that admin so love— on the one hand, on the other, bland, all the right words in a plausible order, all arses covered, no one to blame. Just look at all those consultations and surveys. It all makes work for the Clerisy to do. And with AI there can be so much more of it.
DJ - bureaucrats have very sensitive employment antennae, they must see the threat of AI but as you say, AI Agents will probably be nobbled from the start. A tricky situation for them though.
Jannie - he was right too, even more so now than when he said it.
Scrobs - I'm not surprised, formulating the right query can be tricky and at the moment AI systems sometimes seem to come up with answers which aren't relevant rather than admit that they don't have a relevant answer. Like Keir Starmer.
Anon - I think bureaucrats will be happy with failure, they won't want to hand anything over to an AI system they don't control completely.
djc - at the moment AI looks like a tricky development for bureaucrats. It can churn out what they churn out and as you say, it could be a tl;dr machine in their sphere. Yet anyone else can have the guff summarised by AI, including MPs, journalists and anyone else interested enough. Guff can be identified as guff, as it already is.
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AI, which will lead to robotics and humanoid robots later on, where we are at now is 1994-1995 when the internet started going.
The market will not care if hamas supporters and other cunts hate Musk. 10x at the minimum your money in 5-10 years. In 10 years time bitcoin will be a lot higher.
Anon - I've seen quite a few similar predictions and from what I see of AI so far, the improvements don't have to be huge for it to be reliably more capable than most humans, including driving.
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