Improve policy and strategic decision making through AI
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Year 1 progress
In Year 1, our focus has been empowering our frontline operational services given the pressures on our prison, probation and court systems. However, we have also provided tools and training to support policy and strategy professionals.
As part of our AI for All programme, we have piloted and rolled out general-purpose tools to all staff. Tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT assist policy colleagues with faster summarisation, searching for publicly available research and information, and sharper drafting of advice, briefings and other documents. We encourage all colleagues to test and validate any AI-generated outputs against authoritative sources, ensuring that there is always appropriate human oversight and scrutiny.
Year 2 priorities
In Year 2, we will explore more applied policy use-cases, which could include tools/agents to support more sophisticated policy advice or to model different policy scenarios. We will also look to leverage the GOV.UK Chat solution to support clearer signposting to accurate justice information.
