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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Heather Stewart

Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed

A message reading AI artificial intelligence, a keyboard, and a robot hand
Governments should rightly be open to adopting new technologies, including AI – but with a clear understanding of what they can and can’t do. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

From helping consultants diagnose cancer, to aiding teachers in drawing up lesson plans – and flooding social media with derivative slop – generative artificial intelligence is being adopted across the economy at breakneck speed.

Yet a growing number of voices are starting to ask how much of an asset the technology can be to the UK’s sluggish economy. Not least because there is no escaping a persistent flaw: large language models (LLMs) remain prone to casually making things up.

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