Blair’s Labour government burnt billions on centralising computer systems by farming out the bids to dodgy firms (with a good bit of corruption thrown in too).
This is going to make that look like an exercise in public fiscal responsibility, handing over billions, and billions more in ongoing contracts, just before the bottom falls out of the AI grift and little to nothing is delivered.
Wrong on one count: all that personal data held by the government will be delivered to those private contractors with a little ribbon around it, useful to them regardless of what happens to the infrastructure.
Blair’s Labour government burnt billions on centralising computer systems by farming out the bids to dodgy firms (with a good bit of corruption thrown in too).
This is going to make that look like an exercise in public fiscal responsibility, handing over billions, and billions more in ongoing contracts, just before the bottom falls out of the AI grift and little to nothing is delivered.
Wrong on one count: all that personal data held by the government will be delivered to those private contractors with a little ribbon around it, useful to them regardless of what happens to the infrastructure.
Oh I have no doubt about which (and the only) way the data and money will flow.