AI and the Future of Welfare

AI can help identify who's most likely to be eligible for a service based on existing data, demographic information. This is something that's already happening in welfare provision in the UK. I just think we need to be very discriminating and we need to realize that can be real problems the way the technology is used. In the end, I've got no doubt that we will move to a situation where you have a national data infrastructure system," he says.