Rage against the machine
The Sunday Mirror|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:

This story is from the March 03, 2024 edition of The Sunday Mirror.

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