A new artificial intelligence tool can alert ministers whether a policy is likely to be highly unpopular with members of their own party, using a search called “parliamentary mood check.”
Parlex is a suite of AI tools. The character, called Humphrey after the “Yes Minister” character, was developed for ministers and civil servants to predict which topics might cause difficulties for their backbenchers and to You can pinpoint specific members of Congress who are passionate about something.
If you feed the tool an outline of a policy, such as a 20 mph speed limit, it can predict how legislators will react depending on their past contributions in Congress. a Demonstration video on government website It shows how Conservative MPs have historically opposed the changes, while Labor MPs have supported traffic calming measures.
The AI tools come amid reforms the reform minister is expected to announce on Tuesday, including plans to expand the use of technology in public services. For example, eliminating the need for people to queue at local councils to register a death or facilitating the use of AI in job centers.
As part of the 'Blueprint for Modern Digital Government', there are plans to further strengthen data sharing between departments and streamline the services that organizations such as the NHS and local authorities provide to disabled people.
Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, said: “For too long, technology standstill has hampered public services, costing us all significant time and money.”
The government's strategy to spend £23 billion a year on technology contracts will also change, creating more opportunities for small tech start-ups.
The Parlex tool's description says it “enables policy teams to understand the political landscape, anticipate potential challenges and support before a policy is formally proposed, and develop a response strategy in Congress.” It's dark. Parlex, which is in the early stages of development, describes this as a “vibe check.”
tool, The Times first reportedshows MPs including Iain Duncan Smith and former MP Tobias Ellwood opposing the 20mph limit, with Labor MP Kerry McCarthy speaking in favor of traffic calming measures.
Officials say the tool is likely to be more useful to civil servants than ministers, who are expected to be politically savvy enough to understand the views of prominent members of Congress.
Other AI tools available as part of the Humphrey suite include Minute, which transcribes and summarizes meetings with ministers, and Lex, which helps analyze and summarize the impact of legislation on policy issues.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week launched an AI plan, which ministers say will mean investing billions of pounds in Britain's computing capacity and mainlining AI technology into the country's veins.
The government's plans include potentially controversial plans to free up public data to foster the growth of AI businesses. This includes anonymised NHS data, which will be made available to “researchers and innovators” to train AI models. The government says “strong privacy safeguards” will be in place and the data will never be owned by private companies.
Ministers believe AI could tackle Britain's weak economic growth and deliver an economic boost of up to £470bn over the next decade, according to their own forecasts.
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Parlex is one of many new AI tools being developed within the government. The artificial intelligence incubator within No 10 has now moved to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The department announced that as of the end of last year, 22 projects were in concept and 11 were in the development pipeline.
Another more widespread tool in development is Redbox. This means that civil servants can automate submissions to ministers by analyzing government documents, including those marked 'confidential'.
The tool, which will transform manual work that initially took hours, will be made available to all civil servants in the Cabinet Office and DSIT ahead of a planned rollout to all civil servants.
Another program, Consult, aims to help civil servants analyze and act on public opinion more effectively, by automating and improving consultation processes to generate around £80 million a year. Developed to save money.
The Department for Work and Pensions has been one of the leaders in AI within government, including its use of 'whitemail' to analyze handwritten letters from vulnerable people among the approximately 22,000 letters the department receives each day. . Information can be communicated to relevant parties more quickly.
However, there were major problems, including 100,000 people being incorrectly reported as suspected of housing benefit fraud after the government's algorithm performed far worse than expected.