Oliver Dowden: AI could have a extra vital influence than industrial revolution
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rtificial intelligence could have a extra vital influence on Britain than the economic revolution, Oliver Dowden has mentioned.
The Deputy Prime Minister mentioned AI had huge potential to hurry up productiveness and carry out boring elements of jobs, but in addition posed a big menace to democracies.
Speaking in an interview with The Times, Mr Dowden mentioned: “This is a total revolution that is coming. It’s going to totally transform almost all elements of life over the coming years, and indeed, even months, in some cases.
“It is much faster than other revolutions that we’ve seen and much more extensive, whether that’s the invention of the internal combustion engine or the industrial revolution.”
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Asylum declare purposes processed by the Home Office are already utilizing AI, and it may even be utilized in decreasing paperwork that goes into ministerial purple bins.
Mr Dowden mentioned this streamlining of labor would enable for quicker future decision-making by governments.
“The thing that AI right now does really well, it takes massive amounts of information from datasets in different places and enables you to get to a point where you can make decisions.
“Ministers are never going to outsource to AI the making of decisions. But all of the work that goes into getting to that point . . . You can use AI to speed it up.”
While he acknowledged the expansion of AI would result in a big restructuring of the financial system, Mr Dowden likened the change to the invention of the car.
He added: “We have a very tight labour market and the job of government is to make sure that people can transition.
“Ultimately, AI should have the capability to do the boring bits of jobs, so that humans can concentrate on the more interesting bits.”
However, Mr Dowden additionally mentioned that AI may very well be harnessed by terrorists to develop data on harmful materials or conduct widespread hacking operations.
Details of greater than 10,000 officers and employees on the Police Service of Northern Ireland had been printed on-line for various hours on Tuesday, following an “industrial scale breach of data”.
Mr Dowden mentioned: “You can shortcut hacking by AI. The ability to do destructive things — you can use AI to help you do those.
“Disaffected people exist already. Tie them in with AI, and that enhances, that proliferates, the kind of things that they can do.
“We need to be careful not to overstate these things and do it on an evidential basis, but there is the risk there that has to be addressed.”
Mr Dowden mentioned the leak of information introduced by the Electoral Commission on Tuesday was “precisely” the sort of menace that ministers had been warning about.