- Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison said during a conference this week that governments need to consolidate data about citizens for the sake of AI. He said AI models can help improve government services while also saving money and cutting down on fraud.
Speaking with former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Wednesday, the Oracle cofounder and executive chairman said that while government organizations collect massive amounts of data, it is highly fragmented, making it hard to feed it into an AI model.
“It’s not like, ‘Go to this database, and here’s all the data about my country,’” he said. “It’s ‘Go to these 3,000 databases, and here’s all the data about my country.’”
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Larry Ellison wants the U.S. to ‘unify all the national data’ and then feed it to AI
Ellison is a Republican donor and friends with Trump’s federal cost-cutter Elon Musk.