It has come to light that ministers have already started utilising AI systems to sift through papers and choose which ones are more crucial.
The Cabinet Office’s experimental “AI Red Box,” which Alex Burghart, a Conservative minister, has acknowledged he uses to sift through the piles of files he is assigned to read each day.
Alex Chisolm, a senior civil official, and another minister are allegedly also utilising the experimental system, according to the Minister for Implementation.
He also said that authorities attempted to set up a chatbot that would be able to answer public inquiries on the Gov.UK website and have access to the whole collection of official data.
However, this experiment was ultimately scrapped when it did ‘some strange things’ which included randomly speaking French as well as being incorrect about a fifth of the time.
When describing the ‘AI red box’, Mr Burghart told an event in Westminster: ‘What it does is it can read documents that go into your red box, it can summarise them, it can highlight connections between papers, connections between previous papers.
‘And over time, as we fine-tune this model, it will become, I believe, be the institutional memory of the department.’
He said that while a lot of good people pass through the Cabinet Office, ‘they don’t always stay that long.’
He continued: ‘It means that things that happened three, four, or five years ago are not around anymore.
‘But with an effective AI red box, that won’t be a problem any more.’
Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney MP said: ‘MPs and Ministers spending time to look over casework and policy is bread and butter.
‘If they can’t be bothered to read things for themselves, we may as well let the robots run the country. Which can’t be much more worse than this Conservative mess.’
The goal of Mr Burghart’s team, the Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar, is to obtain funds to implement the system throughout Whitehall by going to the Treasury in the spring.
The Government Digital Service attempted to create a chatbot like ChatGPT to serve as the front end for Gov.UK, which is the world’s first system of its sort.
Nevertheless, this concept was ultimately shelved.
‘If you asked it questions in a particular way, it responded in French,’ Mr Burghart admitted.
If AI is used by the government, we are in for a very scary time, and if they’re using AI, then there is a real case to reduce the number of MPs that we have. The results can’t be any worse for us, surely.
Beyond that, are these lazy gits incapable of reading for themselves? It just goes to show how educated they are with all their university degrees.
Rishi Sunak could be replaced by Chatbot, and literally, no one would be any the wiser.
This is something to consider. When the Prime Minister and his ministers make a decision, based on a summary and recommendation that nobody had any input into, who will they blame when it all goes wrong? I don’t think they’ve thought this one through.
There needs to be a new rule that stipulates that indolent MPs should be fired if they don’t read anything and instead rely on AI to tell them what needs to be done. Each day passes and these MPs get more and more indolent, and it just proves how bad our government is.
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