Tony Blair Backs aI Doctors and Nurses for The NHS

Sir Tony Blair has advised Britain to accept AI physicians and nurses as he stated the world was 'in the foothills' of the most significant tranformation considering that the Industrial Revolution.

The former prime minister claimed AI might have an 'absolutely transformative' impact on public services by making them better, less expensive and more efficient.

He said, if he was in power today, he would be considering 'how you reorganise the entire government around how you embrace and access this transformation'.

The ex-Labour premier detailed how 'all the routine tasks' in Whitehall could be released up by innovation.

Sir Tony stated it was 'ridiculous' the UK hadn't yet made NHS data available to harness innovation.

He also delivered a withering verdict on the civil service, claiming it was a 'conspiracy for inertia' with a 'genius for soaking up the motivation for change and suffocating it'.

A recent Government experiment with AI - including 20,000 civil servants across 12 major organisations - conserved authorities approximately 26 minutes a day.

It demonstrated how AI tools could release up Whitehall personnel from 'repeated administrative tasks' and deliver higher value for British taxpayers.

Sir Tony Blair declared AI could have an 'absolutely transformative' effect on civil services by making them much better, more affordable and more efficient

The former PM prompted Britain to accept AI doctors and nurses as he said the world was 'in the foothills' of the most significant tranformation given that the Industrial Revolution

Speaking at the SXSW celebration in London, Sir Tony stated: 'We're in the foothills of the most transformative revolution considering that the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.

'Government's everything about process, so you could use AI to speed up the process of the federal government, ensuring that we do, for example, all the routine tasks of government much more efficiently.

'You might be responding to individuals in a much more sensitive, much faster, much better, more efficient method.

'If, for example, you have the ability to merge information sets across departments, you're going to conserve cash.

'You're going to evaluate, based upon health information, in a way that permits you to make better health policy.

'And then, when you search in public services, you should be able to personalise education in the future.

'You could have AI tutors, you ought to have AI nurses, AI doctors. We are already doing a great deal of imaging much, better through utilizing AI.

'It will make [government] much smaller, more effective, expense less and offer a better service to the consumer.'

Sir Tony said AI was neither 'excellent' nor 'bad' however a power that needed to be harnessed responsibly.

He advised 'resistant' authorities to welcome the brand-new technology, adding: 'When I was maturing, people said the civil service was a Tory conspiracy.