AI Exemplars programme
AI Exemplars are transforming public services – improving healthcare, education, planning and justice with practical and innovative AI solutions.
The Prime Minister’s AI Exemplars Programme is changing how government uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve public services. The programme features a range of exemplary AI projects that will explore new ways to make best use of emerging technology as part of a modern digital government.
The Exemplars were selected as the most promising opportunities for rapidly using AI to make public services more efficient and easier to use. We’re testing multiple AI solutions on different use cases in order to learn quickly from both successes and failures while delivering real improvements.
The programme focuses on practical improvements to public services. For example:
- helping doctors discharge patients from hospitals more quickly while maintaining clinical oversight
- speeding up planning decisions to improve consistency and reduce bureaucracy for homeowners
- saving teachers time on lesson plans and marking and supporting pupils to achieve and thrive in education
AI Exemplar projects include:
Department for Education
- The Education Content Store aims to provide the enabling infrastructure and underpinning content and data that developers need to create high quality AI tools that are aligned with education standards and evidence-based practice. Tools developed utilising this content can save educators time, enabling them to focus on face-to-face teaching and support pupils and students to achieve and thrive in education.
Department for Health and Social Care
- AI Diagnostics provides tools to support clinicians to identify conditions such as lung cancer from scans, helping diagnose patients more quickly and reducing the diagnostic backlog.
- AI Assisted Discharge summaries aim to speed up the process of discharging patients from hospital by assisting clinicians with an AI tool that can draft discharge summaries. Clinicians retain final control and approval over content.
Department for Science Innovation and Technology
- GOV.UK chat is an AI-powered chatbot that provides a new way for the public to interact with government. GOV.UK Chat takes a user’s question and, using relevant GOV.UK pages, generates an instant answer, the way users would write or speak in everyday life.
- AI Transcription for Local Government called Minute, will reduce the time public servants spend note taking, transcribing and summarising meetings by producing summaries in the formats that public servants need.
- Humphrey Productivity Suite aims to support policy professionals with a range of tasks including minute taking, consultation analysis and parliamentary handling, leading to better policy-making.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Digital Planning Programme - Extract helps councils convert decades-old, handwritten planning documents and maps into data in minutes, speeding up the process of planning applications for home improvements and new homes.
Ministry of Justice
- Probation Casework aims to reduce the note taking burden for frontline staff so that they can spend less time on admin and focus more on personal interactions during probation meetings.
HMRC
- Tax Compliance - An AI tool to better target investigations into Fraud and Error to support the recovery of tax revenues.