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But all the cool kids are doing it!
“Replacing public servants with AI could come with hidden costs, critics warn”
This article touches on a few concerns around the rush to replace public servants with AI:
- increased dependence on US big tech
- artificially low initial costs that are currently being subsidized by the tech companies as they battle it out for market share, but which must increase for the industry to turn a profit.
What it doesn’t cover is:
- loss of expertise as experienced public servants are forced out, often through early retirement schemes
- accuracy of output given LLM’s well-documented error-rates
- legal/criminal liability
- future costs of repairing the damage to the government data/knowledge base/systems that letting these models run amok on govt. datasets will cause.
#AI #LLMs #NZPoli #CDNPoli
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595847/replacing-public-servants-with-ai-could-come-with-hidden-costs-critics-warn -
@davidakin I would expect not. Luxon is trying to do his best Trump imitation courting the far right for his coalition and attacking Maori constitutional rights and calling it "Equality". I am sure Xi approves.
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I LOVE this so much. Maori MPs in the New Zealand parliament protest attempts by the centre-right government and far-right "ACT" coalition partners to pass legislation that water down treaty rights of Maori.
New Zealand is one of the only places (the only?) in the British Empire where the Crown signed a treaty with all Indigenous peoples at the time of contact. It has shaped NZ Law and Society ever since!
Thank you to @b9AcE for the video.
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New Zealand elects a 'centrist' (read right wing gov) and guess what happens - suck it up kids, you go to school sick
It's a truly screwed mindset to track and punish people for avoiding spreading disease, vs tracking and preventing disease
These dudes will be delightful if/when bird flu crosses
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The thing about New Zealand news right now is that pretty much every single day you will log on to see yet another ridiculous thing that Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has done or said. What a hot mess.