Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects The UK's pensions and benefits department has awarded IBM a contract that's worth up to £27 million to explore, deploy and support AI technologies to enhance its services. The irony isn't lost on us either. A technology that is feared wipe part of the human workforce - if the hype is to be believed - is going to be used by a …
On the other hand - they gave it to IBM, so it won't work, the information it gives you will be wrong (especially if Watson is buried in the mix), they will take years to deliver a minimal viable product, and the cost will balloon to the point it will all be abandoned anyway.
IBM is no longer as intelligent as it once was, artifical or otherwise.
So basically the UK transitions further to Airstrip 1 via American Medical insurer Delay, Deny, Defend model, Stasi like surveillance and Chinese Social Credit Scoring
Seems the DWP runs the govt - DWP is too big, too powerful, too biased, too institutionally defensive and downright top bigoted.
Likely they will abuse the regs that allow them access to claimant's bank accounts to instead let their AI scan everyone's bank accounts (exempting of course senior politicians, captains of industry, large amount donors, heads of friendly think tanks etc...) to "establish a base line profile so as to have the data on hand in case a claim is filed so we can expedite the claims process and preemptively prevent fraud" and of course this won't come out for years on end and only after the DWP file for and get a super injunction to prevent publication, along leaning on as many politicians as possible to quell the chance of parliamentary privilege being used (or lobbying for that to be abolished on "national security" grounds)
The DWP needs broken up and replaced with it's predecessors - ministry of social security, ministry for labour/work, ministry for pensions - kept siloed as putting them under one umbrella leads to this.....
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