> He asked DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, “If you were a government today why would you not want to have all of your data in a cloud-based infrastructure so you can analyse it with an LLM?”, a question that even Hassabis had to swerve, no doubt mindful of the security and accuracy implications of such a move and the enormous amount of data cleaning, infrastructure management and optimisation that would be required.
Added this piece from Anna Dent to the reading list: https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Automating-Public-Services-A-careful-approach
> Technological progress happens in tandem with societal change; as my colleague Anna Dent set out yesterday in Computer Weekly, public trust is essential to deliver this well -- particularly for a government with such a wide and shallow mandate.