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Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say

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Decision made to grant US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to data in project to build integrated platform, according to reportsUK politics live – latest updatesMPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to identifiable patient information in its plan to use AI to improve the health service is “dangerous” and will fuel […]

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Scientists develop AI tool to spot heart failure risk five years before it strikes

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Oxford team’s technology picked up danger signs with 86% accuracy in study of 72,000 patients in EnglandOxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure five years before it develops.More than 60 million people worldwide have the condition in which the heart cannot pump blood around the body

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Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests

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Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solvingPupils using artificial intelligence are losing their capacity for critical thinking, according to a survey of secondary school teachers in England.Two-thirds said they had observed the decline among children who they also said no longer felt the need to spell

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Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract

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Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics companyUK politics live – latest updatesPalantir’s UK boss has urged the government not to give in to “ideologically motivated campaigners” as government ministers explore a way out of a £330m NHS contract with the tech company.Ministers have sought

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Lincolnshire council approves AI datacentre despite emissions warnings

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Campaigners say campus near Scunthorpe could generate emissions close to those from all UK domestic flightsPlans for a new datacentre in Lincolnshire have been approved, despite warnings it could be a major new source of emissions.On Wednesday, North Lincolnshire council voted unanimously to approve planning permission for the Elsham Tech Park, a proposed AI datacentre

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Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told

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Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raidsPalantir’s NHS contract opens the door to the Big Brother-style data-sharing that Reform UK would use for a version of US immigration raids, health bosses have been told.Palantir Technologies – the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel and

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Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

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Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.Alvi Choudhury, 26, a software engineer,

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Court backlog will take decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite overhaul, says MoJ

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Justice secretary says only his measures will stop backlog in England and Wales from increasing exponentiallyThe backlog in criminal courts in England and Wales will take a decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite radical changes including curtailing jury trials, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice.The justice secretary, David Lammy, said the government

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‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviews

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Information content manager Rosie Weatherley says harmful inaccuracies are presented as uncontroversial factsMind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigationA year-long commission has been launched by Mind to examine AI and mental health after a Guardian investigation exposed how Google’s AI Overviews, which are shown to 2 billion people each month, gave

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AI tools make potentially harmful errors in social work records, research says

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Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to hallucinate and produce ‘gibberish’AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said.Keir Starmer last year championed what he called “incredible” time-saving social work transcription technology. But research across 17

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