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How can governments re-organize themselves to be AI-enabled? Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has more of his own brand of 'helpful' suggestions to share

As the US and China governments prepare to sit down together in Washington and the wider question of AI policy very much in the mainstream, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has staged another of its policy interventions, replete with yet another Blairite blandishment:

The question leaders should be asking themselves is not whether AI is a good thing or a bad thing. Rather, it is simply the thing.

OK, if we can get past the essential triteness of that soundbite, what are the implications for political leaders? The Institute, the mouthpiece of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has what it thinks is the answer:

Tony Blair warns leaders to resist growing AI ‘techlash’

Tony Blair has warned governments against bowing to a growing “techlash” over AI, arguing that slowing adoption could leave countries poorer and less secure as concerns over the technology mount.

A report from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), published on Monday, said political leaders in the US and UK were facing growing pressure to hold back AI but warned that “doing less” may carry significant long-term costs for economic growth and national security. It lands after a bruising fortnight for an industry more accustomed to selling the upside of AI than debating whether it could kill its customers.

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon sparked a new wave of concern this month after quitting the company and warning that developers were “gambling with our lives”, while Anthropic boss Dario Amodei and OpenAI chief Sam Altman have since backed calls to “pace” development at the frontier.

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