All posts tagged "Artificial Intelligence"

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  ‘Across the public sector there is a sense of excitement but also worry, and both feelings are justified’: can governments ensure AI is equitable?

  Concerns are growing about artificial intelligence and its ability to exacerbate inequalities. Global Government Forum convened a panel of public servants from around the world for a webinar on how

  • Posted August 7, 2023
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  UK Treasury issues cost-saving guidance to departments; New Zealand to form online security agency: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK Treasury issues efficiency guidance HM Treasury has published new guidelines for departments on how

  • Posted August 3, 2023
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  UK’s top civil servant demands end to ‘Blob’ slur; third of Canadian public servants say work suffers due to staff churn: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK cabinet secretary calls for end to “dehumanising” term to describe officials Simon Case, the

  • Posted July 20, 2023
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  ‘We have to do it faster and better than they do’: CIA chief sets out era of US-China ‘strategic competition’ in AI and beyond

  The head of the Central Intelligence Agency has said that harnessing the power of artificial intelligence represents “the most profound transformation of espionage tradecraft since the Cold War” as he

  • Posted July 17, 2023
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  One in ten Canadian public servants already using AI for work purposes

  More than 10% of Canadian public servants say they have used artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT in their work, Global Government Forum research has found. A survey of 1,320

  • Posted July 5, 2023
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  AI ‘could shrink UK civil service by two-thirds’ says former UK government HR chief

  Rupert McNeil, the former head of human resources for the UK government, has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could replace two-thirds of civil service roles over the next 15 years.

  • Posted June 26, 2023
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  Agricultural advice AI wins Canada’s Public Service Data Challenge

  A plan to use AI system ChatGPT to support Canada’s agricultural sector triumphed in the Public Service Data Challenge Final last night, securing the backing of top officials and putting

  • Posted June 22, 2023
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  AI could deny vulnerable citizens public services, fears EU chief

  Artificial intelligence is likely to harm underprivileged citizens most, the European Union’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said, as speculation grows over AI’s threat to humanity. Speaking to the BBC,

  • Posted June 19, 2023
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  Treat AI with ‘same spirit of urgency’ as climate change, says UK PM

  UK prime minister Rishi Sunak urged world leaders to view artificial intelligence (AI) with the same humanitarian concern they would climate change during a visit to the White House on

  • Posted June 12, 2023
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  G7 leaders ‘take stock’ of AI amid calls for shared governance standards

  National leaders from the Group of Seven have vowed to work together and with other international partners to achieve “the common vision and goal of trustworthy AI”. The development of

  • Posted May 25, 2023
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