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Sir Tony Blair has actually prompted Britain to welcome AI medical professionals and nurses as he said the world was 'in the foothills' of the most significant tranformation since the Industrial Revolution.

The former prime minister declared AI could have an 'definitely transformative' influence on civil services by making them better, less expensive and more efficient.

He said, if he was in power today, he would be thinking about 'how you reorganise the entire government around how you welcome and access this transformation'.

The ex-Labour premier outlined how 'all the regular jobs' in Whitehall could be maximized by innovation.

Sir Tony said it was 'absurd' the UK hadn't yet made NHS data available to harness innovation.

He also delivered a withering verdict on the civil service, declaring it was a 'conspiracy for inertia' with a 'genius for absorbing the inspiration for modification and suffocating it'.

A current Government try out AI - involving 20,000 civil servants across 12 significant organisations - conserved authorities approximately 26 minutes a day.

It demonstrated how AI tools might maximize Whitehall personnel from 'repeated administrative tasks' and provide greater value for British taxpayers.

Sir Tony Blair claimed AI might have an 'absolutely transformative' effect on public services by making them better, less expensive and more effective

The previous PM advised Britain to embrace AI physicians and nurses as he stated the world was 'in the foothills' of the greatest tranformation because the Industrial Revolution

Speaking at the SXSW celebration in London, Sir Tony said: 'We remain in the foothills of the most transformative revolution because the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.

all about process, so you could use AI to speed up the procedure of the government, ensuring that we do, for example, all the regular tasks of government a lot more effectively.

'You could be reacting to individuals in a far more sensitive, quicker, much better, more effective method.

'If, for instance, you're able to merge data sets across departments, you're going to conserve cash.

'You're going to analyse, based upon health data, in a method that permits you to make much better health policy.

'And then, when you search in public services, you must be able to customise education in the future.

'You could have AI tutors, you should have AI nurses, AI doctors. We are already doing a lot of imaging much, far better through using AI.

'It will make [federal government] much smaller sized, more effective, expense less and provide a much better service to the client.'

Sir Tony stated AI was neither 'good' nor 'bad' however a power that required to be harnessed responsibly.

He prompted 'resistant' authorities to accept the new innovation, including: 'When I was maturing, 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 got a genius for taking in the inspiration for modification and suffocating it.'

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