What happens when a government goes all in on AI? It creates some huge vulnerabilities. Will Dunn joins Paris Marx to dig into how the UK government is using chatbots to write laws without public consultation and why it isn’t asking the hard questions about the risks of that growing reliance on US technology.

Will Dunn is the business editor at the New Statesman.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

• Will wrote about the UK government’s adoption of AI and the risks it presents.
• Rishi Sunak is working with Anthropic.
• Sunak acknowledges companies reliant on AI technology are hiring less young people.
• Will shouts out the book Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott J. Shapiro.

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