Not ‘Just Automated Statistics’. Like us, AI is wrong but useful.

Responding to and making sense of the frequent objection in U.K. Government that AI is just automated statistics, just maths.

Drop the self-harming rhetoric from authority figures. This was one of mine and Rob’s recommendations in “Don’t Blink”. I wanted to unpack it a little further.

Throughout the Integrated Review of 2020, more than one senior official would dismiss arguments for AI’s potential with the claim that ‘AI is just automated statistics’ or ‘AI is just maths, not m…