"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. The breadth of tasks AI will do "will make it harder for people to switch easily from jobs that are displaced to similar jobs that they would be a good fit for," said said. "In the end AI will be able to do everything, and we need to grapple with that.""
"The job seeker pilot is one of several announcements from the government as part of what DSIT called "a week of focused action" on AI. This includes commissioning a group of Brit AI experts to develop open source tools to support public services with Meta providing $1 million (£730,000) of funding for a fellowship programme run by the Alan Turing Institute."
The UK government will work with Anthropic to pilot an AI assistant for job seekers offering custom career advice and help to secure employment, with a pilot due later this year. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei warns that rapid AI development will cause an unusually painful short-term transition, slow labour-market adjustment, and broad task automation that hinders worker reallocation. DSIT announced commissioning British AI experts to build open-source tools for public services and a Meta-funded $1 million (£730,000) fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute. Other projects include AI analysis of transport imagery to prioritise repairs, secure offline AI services to protect sensitive data, and an AI Skills Hub offering training to millions.
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