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Deepak Padmanabhan, Senior Lecturer in AI, Queen's University Belfast

Why ChatGPT is a uniquely terrible tool for government ministers

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The news that Peter Kyle, secretary of state for science and technology, had been using ChatGPT for policy advice prompted some difficult questions.

Kyle apparently used the AI tool to draft speeches and even asked it for suggestions about which podcasts he should appear on. But he also sought advice on his policy work, apparently including questions on why businesses in the UK are not adopting AI more readily. He asked the tool to define what “digital inclusion” means.

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