UK government: “Local AI is a new team in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), working with councils to support the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) across local government. We focus on the real pressures councils face and work in partnership with the sector to tackle shared problems…Over the past year, we’ve focused on understanding where AI can add the most value in local government. This has included:
- discovery work on pressures in temporary accommodation services and the potential to scale an AI transcription and summarisation tool developed by the Incubator for AI (i.AI)
- close collaboration with partners across the sector, including Local Digital, GDS Local, i.AI and the Local Government Association
- participation in the Local Government Innovation Hackathon on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
- establishing the Mayoral Data Council to improve data quality and availability.
This work has shown that well targeted AI can reduce administrative burden, free up frontline time and support earlier, more consistent interventions.
What we’re doing now
We are moving into delivery and expanding our work in areas where AI can make a practical difference. This includes:
- incubating high impact use cases in temporary accommodation
- developing a new transcription tool for public-facing workers based on i.AI’s Minute tool.
- running further discovery work in other service areas
- learning from local innovation and identifying ideas that can be reused
- supporting councils to strengthen data quality, ethics and safety practices.
This helps ensure we are solving the right problems and that councils help shape our roadmap from the start…(More)” – See also AI Localism
