Read The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures – as is the fear of ‘falling behind the public’ by Dan Milmo (The Guardian)

Only wrote to my MP expressing such concerns… 3 years ago. Better late than never?

Friday 7 July 2023

Dear Andrew Selous,

I’m deeply concerned by the lack of urgency within the current
government (and, frankly, across the country) to legislate regarding
“AI”. I can’t really be more specific than that because the legislative
concerns are enormous: crime, copyright and employment, just for
starters.

Read Short tempers and legal threats: UK teachers report rise in problem parents by Richard Adams (The Guardian)

For me, this is the most damaging result of our short-sighted rush towards “productivity”:

More recently, heads said parents had been using AI to generate lengthy, legalistic complaints that required increasing amounts of time to administer.

This is a completely justified use of an LLM and it’s going to cost more time than an LLM will ever save. Unless you use an LLM to respond, in which case we’ll just have LLMs burning resources achieving nothing.