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William Watson: Hubris meets humbug with government AI 'strategy'

We need neutral policies that assume nothing in detail about how the future will look. Because the human condition is that we don't know

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In his recent essay on the troubles of the British Labour government, former prime minister Tony Blair says the problem isn’t personality or communications but the fact the government doesn’t have “a worked-out coherent plan for a country in a fast-changing world” (see below). What’s required is “long-term strategic thinking which is alien to the way most modern democracies function.” Not that old-time democracies did strategy any better. 

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“A worked-out, coherent plan” for dealing with a completely new and likely transformative technology. Well, good luck with that. 

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