Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers

The UK government will work with supplier Anthropic to build an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for job seekers, despite its chief executive’s doom-laden views of the job market.

Yes, we see the irony too.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said that Anthropic will help the government to build and pilot an assistant that will help support people in specific situations, starting with “providing custom career advice and help to lock down a job”.

The pilot is planned to start later this year.

Earlier in the week Anthropic’s chief executive Dario Amodei published a magnum opus detailing among other things how he expects AI to disrupt to the job market.

“The short-term transition will be unusually painful compared to past technologies, since humans and labour markets are slow to react and to equilibrate,” he wrote of the speed of AI development.

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