Something for weekend - Tony Blair's egotistical intervention in the AI debate is undermined by his roots showing
The week in AI has been dominated by the Pope’s open letter to the world warning of the dangers of the technology if humanity does not open its eyes to some of the societal impacts involved and take preventative action. It is, while not anti-AI as critics have claimed, a doctrine that runs counter to the self-interest of Silicon Valley and the current political mood board in Washington.
Still anything the Pope can do, Tony Blair can do better and so it was that 24 hours after the dust settled on the Vatican’s thesis, along came the former British Prime Minister, and now head of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change policy unit and consultancy, to offer his own view of AI in the world.
Suffice to say, the gospel according to Blair is far more to the taste of Washington and Silicon Valley than that of the...
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