<![CDATA[Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things:]]>Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things:

A complete cost projection from Treasury, including what the AI itself will cost over time.

A public register listing every place AI is being used in government.

An Office for AI with real power to assess and stop risky projects.

A clear answer on which overseas companies our information is being handed to, and on what terms.

AI is not a magic wand. It is a contract. New Zealanders are entitled to see the terms before our names are signed to it.

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Before we let AI run the public service, we need to know the full impact

New Zealand is badly under-prepared for mass deployment of AI in the public sector - and the latest Budget measures are being made without safeguards, writes Professor Alexandra Andhov

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/ef213238-1657-48ed-b3bf-b6495ae7e3b8/before-those-8-700-jobs-go-the-public-deserves-four-thingsRSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 16:57:22 GMTWed, 20 May 2026 20:52:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things: on Thu, 21 May 2026 09:56:18 GMT]]>@ClareBear Lol like you have a right to question normal implementation of technological advances in the workplace. How entitled 🀣.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/ap/users/116596538263481113/statuses/116611965142184360https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/ap/users/116596538263481113/statuses/116611965142184360Thu, 21 May 2026 09:56:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things: on Thu, 21 May 2026 05:46:38 GMT]]>@jeremy_pm Yeah, I can't help but think that CoPilot GitHub switching to per-token charging rather than the current low cost subscription on June 1st must be going to be a big step towards the POP.

@moz @ClareBear

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/debe/statuses/116610983421430103https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/debe/statuses/116610983421430103Thu, 21 May 2026 05:46:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things: on Thu, 21 May 2026 05:04:08 GMT]]>@lightweight @airshipper @vik happy with that Dave πŸ’š

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/ClareBear/statuses/116610816284557582https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/ClareBear/statuses/116610816284557582Thu, 21 May 2026 05:04:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things: on Thu, 21 May 2026 04:18:08 GMT]]>@vik @ClareBear didn't we hear that labour did a deal with microsoft, so all the copilot use is free (for now!)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/airshipper/statuses/116610635414307329https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/airshipper/statuses/116610635414307329Thu, 21 May 2026 04:18:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things: on Wed, 20 May 2026 23:28:55 GMT]]>@ClareBear that article seems to have been written by someone who doesn't know a lot about AI and is carefully avoiding talking about it. My first encounters with studying AI were in the mid-1990s at that same university mentioned in the article (advertorial!) branding – there are definitely people there who'll know that this writer is bullshitting.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/libroraptor/statuses/116609498182935995https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/libroraptor/statuses/116609498182935995Wed, 20 May 2026 23:28:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things: on Wed, 20 May 2026 22:24:15 GMT]]>@moz @ClareBear

The thing with the Ai bubble is it’s currently losing billions of dollars and only able to keep up the pretence of legitimacy thanks to the large sums of money being poured into it from Gulf State oil profits.

Those investments have continued due to the obligations of the petrodollar requiring all OPEC oil profits to be invested in either US treasury bonds or the US stock exchange but now as a result of the incredibly dumb and illegal war against Iran those GCC countries are no longer able to maintain their level of investment and are in fact now beginning to divest from US stocks and treasury bonds.

I suspect the Ai bubble is about to burst.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/jeremy_pm/statuses/116609243874659090https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/jeremy_pm/statuses/116609243874659090Wed, 20 May 2026 22:24:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before those 8,700 jobs go, the public deserves four things: on Wed, 20 May 2026 21:30:56 GMT]]>@ClareBear We're still in the "charge nothing to attract users" phase, we don't know how much is costs to use LLMs even at the vague guess level. This is "dis-establishing the taxi industry because Uber is cheap" territory.

You could take a rough stab by saying "they've invested $US2T so far, they're going to want that back with bells on".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/moz/statuses/116609034239112834https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/moz/statuses/116609034239112834Wed, 20 May 2026 21:30:56 GMT