UK Prime Minister: AI should replace some work of civil servants:

Officials will be told to abide by a mantra that says: “No person’s substantive time should be spent on a task where digital or AI can do it better, quicker and to the same high quality and standard.”

This is a big shift in strategy for the British Government, and a sign of how quickly this ecosystem has matured. I worked for a few UK government departments in the past, and I think agentic AI, consciously applied, has a huge potential to make government more efficient, effective and responsive.

It’ll be interesting to see how these changes are actually applied at an operational level. I am not someone who generally believes that AI is threatening to replace ‘jobs’, I believe it will replace discreet tasks and processes within jobs.

Think of the hundreds of small, discreet threads of function that weave themselves together into a job role; some of those threads are replaceable now, some in a year, some in ten, some never. How do we start to replace individual threads in isolation? Thats the hard part. And the fun part.