A couple of articles in the Guardian dealing with the governments rush to embrace AI and a recent poll found that in in five gen z and millenial and 14% of UK citizens agreed with the statement: “The best system for runing a country effectively is a strong leader who doesnt have to bother with elections”.
See https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai and https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/one-in-five-britons-aged-18-45-prefer-unelected-leaders-to-democracy-poll-finds
The government’s plans for the headlong expansion of AI remind me of the optimist who leaps off the top of the Shard and as they pass the second floor think, “alright so far”. I don’t see any concrete evidence of “what if” analysis. The government is behaving like the Gadarene swine bolstered with battalions of lemmings.
I suppose AI will have a use in the future when the 14% of the general population plus 20% of gen Z and millennials, who like strong leaders without elections, will soon have their wildest dreams realised; an AI Big Brother replete with a toothbrush moustached atavar.