Foreign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start
Added 2025-03-10 17:03:31 +0000 UTCPivot has covered the UK government's ongoing AI disaster at length. My editor at Foreign Policy asked for something similar for the lay audience, and it's up at last!
Article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/10/ai-uk-starmer-opportunities-plan1189169/
Hop the paywall: https://archive.is/RSU91
The nice thing about this piece is getting to loudly point out in the serious press that the Tony Blair Institute just committed straight-up data fraud and got ChatGPT to make up all its numbers. These numbers are the entire justification for the current UK AI push, which is absolutely set to be a ridiculous disaster.
At least the US's crypto disaster will outdo it for spectacular stupidity in unforced errors.
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