Almost two-thirds of British jobs could be "enhanced" with AI, Google has claimed, with only a tiny proportion at risk of being "phased out" entirely. Instead of worrying about job losses caused by AI, the focus needed to be on making sure the millions of Britons who could work in smarter and faster ways with AI tech got the support to use it, the company said. "Fewer than 50% of people are actually taking advantage of these tools in their working life on a day to day basis," said Debbie Weinstein, managing director of Google UK. "The uptake of these tools is very low, and I think the only way we're going to unlock the potential of what AI can do is actually by getting people to use them, and to feel confident and capable about them." According to research from the thinktank Public First, commissioned by Google, 61% of British jobs will be "radically" transformed by AI, with just 31% "insulated" from the technology – defined as having fewer than a quarter of their workplace tasks with the potential to be automated. Those insulated jobs would overwhelmingly be in social care, transport, accommodation and food services, where complex and varied physical tasks were achievable only by human workers, Public First said.

A former patient of the University of Chicago Medical Center is suing the institution amid claims it violated patients' privacy rights. The class-action lawsuit claims records containing identifiable patient information were shared as a result of a partnership between Google and the University of Chicago. All three institutions are named as defendants in the suit, which was filed Wednesday in the Northern District of Illinois by Matt Dinerstein, who received treatment at the medical center during two hospital stays in 2015. The collaboration between Google and the University of Chicago was launched in 2017 to study electronic health records and develop new machine-learning techniques to create predictive models that could prevent unplanned hospital readmissions, avoid costly complications and save lives, according to a 2017 news release from the university. The tech giant has similar partnerships with Stanford University and the University of California-San Francisco.