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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If this NHS data is properly anonymised, why not open it to everyone instead of just select "researchers and innovators"? (And how do I know that "researchers and innovators" just means Microsoft and Google?)

This just seems like a multi billion pound gift to US tech companies. We're still effectively in austerity and this is what they're spending money on.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    One problem is medical / life insurance firms. If they use the data to identify correlations (real or spurious) then they might make insurance unaffordable or just flat out refuse it to certain sectors.

    Not everyone is looking for medical solutions.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The UK has an open data standard for government data (thanks to Gordon Brown!). I could be wrong, but I think they'll use that (if not, they should!).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I remember when that came out, it was really ahead of its time! Whatever they did with Gov.UK in the beginning should be the model for how government does online services.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The story behind it is nuts, too. Apparently Tim Berners-Lee (he who invented the Web) was at some kind of government reception and Gordon Brown asked him something like, 'What could the government do to make better use of the web?'. Berners-Lee said, 'Well, you could make all government data publicly available,' expecting Brown to go, 'Ha-ha, no,' but he just went, 'Yep, great idea', and then did it.

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