A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (www.gov.uk)

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Over 20,000 civil servants were given the latest AI tech for 3 months, using it to draft documents, summarise meetings and more

from policy officials using it to cut through jargon and streamline consultations, to Work Coaches speeding up support for job seekers – officials said the tech boosted their ability to deliver the Plan for Change

comes as expansive research shows half of office work can be helped by AI, as government continues push to save £45 billion by creating a lean, modern state using tech

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nice.

Now to just trash all the work they did during this time and redo it, or a few years down the line, there will be complaints coming up of the lives they messed up by hard-to-find mistakes in the stuff they did.

Gotta remove the evidence of foul play.

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