Sir Tony Blair has actually urged Britain to welcome AI doctors and nurses as he said the world was 'in the foothills' of the biggest tranformation since the Industrial Revolution.
The previous prime minister claimed AI could have an 'definitely transformative' effect on civil services by making them better, more affordable 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 laid out how 'all the routine tasks' in Whitehall could be freed up by innovation.
Sir Tony said it was 'absurd' the UK had not yet made NHS information offered to harness development.
He also provided a withering verdict on the civil service, declaring it was a 'conspiracy for inertia' with a 'genius for absorbing the impetus for modification and suffocating it'.
A recent Government experiment with AI - involving 20,000 throughout 12 significant organisations - saved officials an average of 26 minutes a day.
It showed how AI tools could maximize Whitehall staff from 'repeated administrative tasks' and provide higher worth for British taxpayers.
Sir Tony Blair declared AI could have an 'absolutely transformative' influence on civil services by making them much better, more affordable and more effective
The previous PM urged Britain to accept AI physicians and nurses as he said the world was 'in the foothills' of the biggest tranformation considering that the Industrial Revolution
Speaking at the SXSW festival in London, Sir Tony said: 'We remain in the foothills of the most transformative transformation because the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.
'Government's everything about process, so you could utilize AI to speed up the process of the government, making sure that we do, for example, all the regular jobs of government a lot more effectively.
'You could be responding to individuals in a far more sensitive, quicker, much better, more efficient way.
'If, for instance, you're able to merge information sets across departments, you're going to conserve cash.
'You're going to evaluate, based on health data, in a manner that allows you to make better health policy.
'And after that, when you search in public services, you must be able to personalise education in the future.
'You could have AI tutors, you should have AI nurses, AI medical professionals. We are currently doing a great deal of imaging much, better through utilizing AI.
'It will make [government] much smaller, more efficient, expense less and provide a better service to the client.'
Sir Tony said AI was neither 'good' nor 'bad' but a power that required to be harnessed properly.
He advised 'resistant' authorities to welcome the new technology, including: 'When I was growing up, people said the civil service was a Tory conspiracy.
'And when I got in there, I understood it wasn't a conspiracy for the Tories or for Labour.
'It's a conspiracy for inertia, it has actually got a genius for taking in the motivation for modification and suffocating it.'
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