Tony Blair Backs aI Doctors and Nurses for The NHS

Sir Tony Blair has urged Britain to welcome AI medical professionals and nurses as he said the world was 'in the foothills' of the biggest tranformation because the Industrial Revolution.

The former prime minister declared AI could have an 'definitely transformative' effect on civil services by making them better, cheaper and more effective.

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

The ex-Labour premier outlined how 'all the regular tasks' in Whitehall might be maximized by technology.

Sir Tony said it was 'absurd' the UK hadn't yet made NHS data readily available to harness innovation.

He also provided a withering verdict on the civil service, claiming it was a 'conspiracy for inertia' with a 'genius for taking in the motivation for modification and suffocating it'.

A current Government explore AI - involving 20,000 civil servants throughout 12 major organisations - saved officials approximately 26 minutes a day.

It demonstrated how AI tools could free up Whitehall personnel from 'repetitive administrative tasks' and deliver greater worth for British taxpayers.

Sir Tony Blair claimed AI might have an 'absolutely transformative' influence on public services by making them better, cheaper and more efficient

The former PM urged Britain to welcome AI medical professionals and nurses as he said the world was 'in the foothills' of the most significant tranformation since the Industrial Revolution

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

'Government's all about process, so you could utilize AI to speed up the process of the federal government, making certain that we do, for example, all the routine jobs of government much more efficiently.

'You could be reacting to individuals in a much more sensitive, much faster, much better, more efficient way.

'If, for instance, you're able to merge information sets across departments, you're going to conserve money.

'You're going to analyse, based upon health information, in a way that allows you to make much better health policy.

'And then, when you look in public services, you must have the ability to personalise education in the future.

'You could have AI tutors, you should have AI nurses, AI doctors. We are currently doing a great deal of imaging much, much better through using AI.

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

Sir Tony stated AI was neither 'good' nor 'bad' however a power that needed to be utilized responsibly.

He urged 'resistant' authorities to accept the new innovation, including: 'When I was growing up, individuals said the civil service was a Tory conspiracy.

'And when I got in there, I realised it wasn't a conspiracy for the Tories or for Labour.