{"id":17473,"date":"2025-01-27T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T07:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/ai-prototypes-for-uk-welfare-system-dropped-as-officials-lament-false-starts\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T07:37:53","slug":"ai-prototypes-for-uk-welfare-system-dropped-as-officials-lament-false-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/ai-prototypes-for-uk-welfare-system-dropped-as-officials-lament-false-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament \u2018false starts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/27\/dwp-ai-whitemail-benefit-claimants-applicants\">\u2018Serious concerns\u2019 about DWP\u2019s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ministers have shut down or dropped at least half a dozen artificial intelligence prototypes intended for the welfare system, the Guardian has learned, in a sign of the headwinds facing Keir Starmer\u2019s effort to increase government efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots of AI technology to enhance staff training, improve the service in jobcentres, speed up disability benefit payments and modernise communication systems are not being taken forward, freedom of information (FoI) requests reveal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/27\/ai-prototypes-uk-welfare-system-dropped\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9b92329ccd7f6b7efa9afd5d7cd964cf350ffec5\/0_103_4848_2909\/master\/4848.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=146db49d98f956b32bdab09158d4c630\" title=\"AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament \u2018false starts\u2019\" \/>Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up<br \/>\n\u2018Serious concerns\u2019 about DWP\u2019s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimant<br \/>\nMinisters have shut down or dropped at least half a dozen artificial intelligence prototypes intended for the welfare system, the Guardian has learned, in a sign of the headwinds facing Keir Starmer\u2019s effort to increase government efficiency.<br \/>\nPilots of AI technology to enhance staff training, improve the service in jobcentres, speed up disability benefit payments and modernise communication systems are not being taken forward, freedom of information (FoI) requests reveal. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up \u2018Serious concerns\u2019 about DWP\u2019s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimant Ministers have shut down or dropped at least half a dozen artificial intelligence prototypes intended for the welfare system, the Guardian has learned, in a sign &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/ai-prototypes-for-uk-welfare-system-dropped-as-officials-lament-false-starts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament \u2018false starts\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}