Humphrey' AI assistant to be introduced to slash UK public sector red tape

Date:
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:30:00 +0000

Description:
Humphrey will help unlock new efficiencies across government departments, including the NHS, HMRC and DVLA

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- British Government launches Humphrey AI, named after 1980s sitcom character
- Artificial intelligence will help save 45 billion in lost productivity
every year
- NHS, HMRC and DVLA are some of the departments set for a boost

In an effort to improve efficiency across its department and the public
sector, the UK Government has shared details of its upcoming Humphrey assistant.

The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology confirmed in a press release that Humphrey named after a character in the Yes, Minister TV series of the 1980s will help cut back on consultant spending.

More broadly, Humphrey forms part of the governments efforts to make the UK a leading AI nation and tackles outdated systems like telephone calls and
written letters that plague HMRC and DVLA systems.

UK Government announces Humphrey AI

All in, the Technology Secretary wants to claw back 45 billion in
productivity savings every year. The deployment of its artificial
intelligence systems promises to reduce inefficiencies across the NHS,
automate processes for the DVLA and enhance data-sharing between departments
to improve services.

Science Secretary Peter Kyle said: My department will put AI to work,
speeding up our ability to deliver our Plan for Change, improve lives and
drive growth.

Kyle added: We will use technology to bear down hard to the nonsensical approach the public sector takes to sharing information and working together
to help the people it serves.

Key to Humphreys offerings are Consult, which summarizes consultation
responses quickly; Parlex, for searching and analyzing parliamentary debates; meeting transcription tool Minute; policy summarization and briefing preparation tool Redbox; and Lex, a system for researching and analyzing
laws.

In other news, public sector organizations must also publish their APIs in order to facilitate the sharing of data. The government also wants to explore public sector pay and rewards to make working there more competitive compared with the private sector.

Kyle concluded: Sluggish technology has hampered our public services for too long, and its costing us all a fortune in time and money.

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