Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using artificial intelligence to help job seekers find employment.

As in many other aspects of the economy, artificial intelligence is now affecting job seeking and employers’ recruitment. DWP is already working to understand the challenges and opportunities Artificial Intelligence presents.

In 2022 DWP launched our Job Matching Pilot to test and learn how new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, might support jobseekers in all stages of planning, searching and applying for jobs.

We will continue to monitor this rapidly developing area and the department will consider opportunities for Artificial Intelligence and other technologies to better support jobseekers, alongside help from our Jobcentres, work coaches, partners and our digital services, including DWPs own Find a Job and Job Help.