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The Guardian - UK
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Robert Booth UK technology editor

SHOCKING: Treasury calls in blair thinktank to advise on using ai across public services | Mind Blowing Facts

James Murray Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Tony Blair pictured this month. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has been asked to advise the government on injecting AI into the public sector. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Ministers have called in Tony Blair’s thinktank and private tech companies to guide them on deploying AI across the UK government in a move campaigners compared to “inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse”.

James Murray, chief secretary to the Treasury, chaired a meeting on Wednesday with the director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), the chair of IBM and senior executives at AI companies including Faculty AI, now part of Accenture, and Dex Hunter-Torricke, a former communications adviser at Google, Facebook and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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