Standard Chartered’s planned job cuts are another reminder that AI was sold as a way to remove boring work. The awkward bit is that quite a lot of boring work pays rent, buys food and keeps people just about attached to civilisation.
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The G7 Discovers AI Has Lawyers
A leaked G7 agenda suggests leaders are preparing to discuss artificial intelligence and tax transparency, which means the future has reached the meeting-room phase. Tech firms will warn about too much regulation, governments will warn about too little, and everyone will ask for innovation while clutching a risk register.
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AI Scribing Rolled Out in London Hospitals
AI scribes in hospitals sound useful, mainly because doctors became doctors to treat people, not to commune with forms. Still, whenever software listens to a consultation and writes the notes, the reassurance that a human checks it afterwards has a large job to do.