Government Goes Slow on Commitment to Train 400,000 Civil Servants In AI – Guido Fawkes

Government Goes Slow on Commitment to Train 400,000 Civil Servants In AI

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Last month Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden announced with much fanfare that 400,000 civil servants would be trained to use the government’s AI tool ‘Humphrey’ this year. McFadden informed all civil servants in England and Wales that the training would begin in Autumn. Just seven weeks away…

Guido’s FOI Unit thought to check in on how the development of the training programme for hundreds of thousands of mandarins was getting along. It appears the training launch might be delayed…

The Cabinet Office said it was still “co-designing with departments the AI training that will be rolled out to civil servants later this year”,  adding that “final costs are unknown as the course is still under development, and will depend on the resources used.” The Cabinet office also “did not hold” information on how much time civil servants will spend on the training programme. Shame the government doesn’t have its ‘progress dashboards’ up and running to track this…