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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

AI ‘could be as transformative as Industrial Revolution’

Commuters in London
Commuters in London. Sir Patrick Vallance told MPs ‘there will be a big impact on jobs’ from generative AI. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty

The new genre of AI could be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, the government’s outgoing chief scientific adviser has said, as he urged Britain to act immediately to prevent huge numbers of people becoming jobless.

Sir Patrick Vallance, who stood down from his advisory role last month, said government should “get ahead” of the profound social and economic changes that ChatGPT-style, generative AI could usher in.

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