{"id":18255,"date":"2025-03-26T11:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/government-ai-roll-outs-threatened-by-outdated-it-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:37:37","slug":"government-ai-roll-outs-threatened-by-outdated-it-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/government-ai-roll-outs-threatened-by-outdated-it-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Government AI roll-outs threatened by outdated IT systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public accounts committee also flags \u2018persistent digital skills shortages\u2019 and uncompetitive civil service pay rates<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s ambition to boost efficiency by embedding AI in all aspects of its work risks being undermined by out-of-date technology, poor quality data and a lack of skilled staff, an influential Commons committee has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The report by the cross-party public accounts committee (PAC) found that more than 20 government IT systems identified as \u201clegacy\u201d, meaning out of date and unsupported, have yet to be given funding to improve them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/26\/government-ai-roll-outs-threatened-by-outdated-it-systems\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c97bb68bc960003553c8458a97e0b25ff658601\/0_183_5498_3298\/master\/5498.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b3518f447ba5f06fb7fb560439c4096f\" title=\"Government AI roll-outs threatened by outdated IT systems\" \/>Public accounts committee also flags \u2018persistent digital skills shortages\u2019 and uncompetitive civil service pay rates<br \/>\nThe government\u2019s ambition to boost efficiency by embedding AI in all aspects of its work risks being undermined by out-of-date technology, poor quality data and a lack of skilled staff, an influential Commons committee has warned.<br \/>\nThe report by the cross-party public accounts committee (PAC) found that more than 20 government IT systems identified as \u201clegacy\u201d, meaning out of date and unsupported, have yet to be given funding to improve them. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public accounts committee also flags \u2018persistent digital skills shortages\u2019 and uncompetitive civil service pay rates The government\u2019s ambition to boost efficiency by embedding AI in all aspects of its work risks being undermined by out-of-date technology, poor quality data and a lack of skilled staff, an influential Commons committee has warned. The report by the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/government-ai-roll-outs-threatened-by-outdated-it-systems\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Government AI roll-outs threatened by outdated IT systems<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18256,"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\/18255"}],"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=18255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}