This week we had yet another chance for our politicians to show they are working for us, the people who elected them.

And once again, they failed.

I’ll be honest, I have mixed feelings about artificial intelligence (AI).

On one hand, I see how it can create efficiencies around systems and processes and free people up to do other things that technology cannot do.

For example, putting in a ‘to-do’ list and asking the AI to come up with the quickest or most effective way to complete the tasks.

Or even just asking AI to read hundreds of pages of documents and give you a summary of what is in them.

However, I am very much not a fan of how overused it has become, particularly when it comes to businesses and organisations promoting themselves, their services or events.

Partially, that’s because whatever system they use makes them all look the same, so there’s nothing unique to draw the eye and also because they are often rife with mistakes that aren’t picked up by the person putting the prompts into the AI when they check the work over.

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