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Use of Generative AI

  • Date released: 14 April  2025
  • Request Number: 202503093
  • Release of information under: FOI 

Information requested

  1. Are staff within your regulatory body under a general instruction to use AI or Generative AI tools to assist your work?
  2. Is your regulatory body currently using AI tools or Generative AI tools to assist your work?
  3. What is your regulatory body’s budget for Generative AI tools?
  4. Can you name the AI tools that your regulatory body uses?
  5. Does your regulatory body have an AI strategy?
  6. If your regulatory body does not have an AI strategy, is it planning to have an AI strategy?

Information released

We confirm that under s.1 of the FOIA, we hold the information you have requested and have answered in turn below.

Question 1

Staff are not under a general instruction to use AI or generative AI tools to assist with our work. However, like most organisations, we are looking to identify beneficial uses of AI that will help to improve the quality of the regulation and other operations that we deliver.

Question 2

We are currently implementing a trial of generative AI tools at pilot scale to assess their benefit in low-risk use cases. This is to improve the quality of our regulation and our efficiency.

Question 3

Our budget for generative AI tools in 2025/26 is £60,000. Given our exploratory approach, there is the potential for this provision to change.

Question 4

Our pilot activity will examine the use of a range of AI tools and the choice of tools will develop over time. Our initial use cases will assess the use of Microsoft Copilot, the Government Communications Service Assist tool and QuillBot for text preparation and summarisation.

Question 5

We do not have a standalone AI strategy. Instead, the use of AI is a component of our wider approach to ensure that we continue to deliver efficient and effective regulation using modern digital technologies and data science.

Question 6

The use and regulation of AI are active areas of work but there are no plans to produce a separate strategy on AI. We are working on early user cases currently and the benefits that it can bring will support our strategy for the next five years.

Exemptions applied

N/A

PIT (Public Interest Test) if applicable

N/A