UK – AI Security Institute
Anthropic and the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to make AI tools that can be integrated into UK government services for citizens.
“AI has the potential to transform how governments serve their citizens,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, in a statement. “We look forward to exploring how Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude could help UK government agencies enhance public services, with the goal of discovering new ways to make vital information and services more efficient and accessible to UK residents.”
My thoughts
Intersting to see commercial services being sifted and brought in for public sector usage. We already have CoPilot access through Microsoft Office 365 so it will be interesting to see what and how a relationship with Anthropic would build that could supplant the usage of that.
The memorandum is highlighting interaction with citizens and government information but I hope the end point of this is not just another simply developed chatbot as they are fraught with issue and rarely are a good way to find the answers to deeper issues.