Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
(asked on 14th January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have used AI in the last 12 months.
Answered by
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Department for Business and Trade is committed to improving its productivity, including through AI and effective use of data. A range of AI tools are available for use by Ministers and officials across various roles the department, including: Microsoft Copilot, Open AI models and other models for specific uses. There are teams focussed on enabling use of AI by building necessary infrastructure and developing specific AI use cases.
Ministers and officials also have access to a range of data services which allow them to deploy AI and data tools.
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