In an interview with Sky News, the former prime minister discusses AI's potential to change the way we live and why governments must work with each other and innovators to work out how to harness the technology.
When it comes to the topic of artificial intelligence, Sir Tony Blair is clear on the technology's potential to change the way we live."I think it [technology] already was, but generative AI has given it a further push forward."
The former prime minister's eponymous institute is writing papers on AI, while he has given talks and penned newspaper opinion pieces on the technology."It is a technology that is, simultaneously, very good but potentially very bad," he tells me. "The advantages are massive. It can transform the way we live and work, it can do enormous things in healthcare and education; in the way government configures itself."On the other hand, you can get disinformation deepfakes, people using it for example to create bio-terror weapons."How does government need to approach it? It needs to understand it, master it and harness it. Access the opportunities, mitigate the risks.
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