Artificial Intelligence systems like ChatGPT should be employed by the government to help run the country, Britain’s science minister has claimed.
Michelle Donelan MP, a government minister for the Conservative Party administration in the United Kingdom, has stated that AI applications like Chat GPT have enormous potential and that officials should not be afraid to embrace the technology to help them run the country.
It comes as artificial intelligence gains traction in other parts of Europe, with Romania’s prime minister announcing last week the world’s first AI government advisor.
Donelan, whose own professional background is in marketing for the likes of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), reportedly believes that AI technology can have a role in aiding governance, saying that it was now up to officials to figure out how best to utilise the likes of chatbots in the work of government.
“We should never be afraid of these technologies. We should be embracing them,” the minister told The Telegraph.
“I think these types of technology are going to create a whole new section of jobs and in areas that we haven’t even thought of, and where this leads us is limitless,” she said — although so far it looks more likely to replace people’s jobs than create them.
“Of course we need regulation in place, we need safeguards. But we should never be afraid of these technologies. We should be embracing them and utilising them so that they can lead to job creation here in the UK.”
Others have meanwhile expressed concerns about the leftist bias of ChatGPT in particular, which often refuses to praise figures on the right for fear of being “inappropriate” while openly being willing to support left-wing causes.