Philip Hammond said government activity involving relatively low-level decision-making could easily be carried out by artificial intelligence PARobots will be running large swathes of government before long as artificial intelligence is deployed to help the state do more with less, the chancellor has said. Philip Hammond told a House of Lords committee that the government was looking into AI and expected swift progress. The prospect of robots being used to streamline government services might deliver savings but could also put thousands of public sector jobs at risk. Reform, a think tank, estimated in February that 250,000 of the UK’s five million public sector workers could lose their jobs to AI over the next 15 years. Mr Hammond told the economic affairs committee: “The government is looking at how it…

Source: The Times September 12, 2017 22:52 UTC