Updated July 12, 2024: The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has been in touch to say we have oversimplified the nature of its research into the value of AI in the public sector workforce. A TBI spokesperson has told us that "we did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results" and that it built its approach "on previous academic papers and empirical research."
It did also want to note that Tony Blair himself was completely aware of the methods used to create the data and that he noted, at the Future of Britain conference "there is no definitive precision in these types of predictive figures." His statement echoes the TBI report which highlights that LLMs "may or may not give reliable results," though anything which is trying to gaze into the future can never be 100% accurate whether created by generative AI or fallible humans.
