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Rage against the machine

The Sunday Mirror

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March 03, 2024

Tories will use AI to scrap tens of thousands of jobs

- SIMON MURPHY

Rage against the machine

THE Government aims to use artificial intelligence to replace tens of thousands of civil service jobs, a union leader claims today.

It comes as the TUC warns we risk a disaster similar to the Post Office's Horizon scandal if workers do not get a say in how machines are rolled out.

Deputy PM Oliver Dowden this week said embracing AI is the only way to slim down the civil service, which must lose 66,000 staff under Tory plans.

But Public and Commercial Services Union general secretary Fran Heathcote said:

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