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UK government invests £10bn in NHS AI despite understanding gaps

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The UK government is investing £10 billion in artificial intelligence for the NHS, despite a lack of understanding about its capabilities and potential harms. This approach is compared to the failed "National Programme for IT in the NHS" under Tony Blair, suggesting a pattern of gullibility and ignorance in policy development regarding new technologies. AI

IMPACT Critiques government AI policy in healthcare, highlighting risks of rapid, poorly understood adoption.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece critiquing government policy on AI in the NHS.

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UK government invests £10bn in NHS AI despite understanding gaps

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    There’s this thing that nobody really understands but the people who make it say it’s fantastic. It may do harm but it speeds things up so let’s spend £10bn on

    There’s this thing that nobody really understands but the people who make it say it’s fantastic. It may do harm but it speeds things up so let’s spend £10bn on introducing it throughout the NHS and hope for the best. This, the current government’s attitude to AI, seems very simil…

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