THE AI TRAP

 

That silly twonk Nicola Willis, like many other silly twonks in positions of power, thinks that a reliance on and adoption of AI will solve all the governments woes.

"Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the use of AI and “digitisation” will help save $2.4 billion over the next four years, and cut thousands of jobs from the public service.
But many ministers aren’t quite sure how, exactly, AI is going to cut costs and jobs in their departments.
After Willis made her pre-Budget announcement on Tuesday, reporters asked ministers how they used AI and what they thought it could do to bring down costs.
During her big pre-Budget speech at a business lunch in Auckland, Willis told the crowd: “Our Government is as frustrated as you are by the fragmentation and silos, the complexity, the status-quo thinking and the dangerously slow take up of digital and AI technologies.”
She promised the adoption of AI tools, as well as mergers of departments, would drive cost savings over the next four years.
Most departments have a target of reducing baseline savings by 2% at this year’s Budget, and then 5% next year and the year after, Willis said. She also announced a target of reducing the public sector workforce by 8700 people, down to 55,000 by mid-2029.
“For too long, the public service has been scared of AI, slow to move to the cloud, and has procured a complex and fragmented set of overlapping IT solutions,” she said.
Some ministers, such as Health Minister Simeon Brown and Conservation Minister Tama Potaka, had clear ideas about what AI could do in their departments. But many others weren’t sure how AI could work for them and their ministries."

           - STUFF NEWS Daily