UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled a plan to leverage digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance government efficiency. In a Thursday speech outlining the initiative, he expressed hopes to replace tasks achievable to the same standard with digital and AI solutions within the civil service. He emphasized that civil servants' time should be prioritized for work requiring human judgment and creativity. Starmer believes that wider adoption of digital methods by the UK government will...

According to The Washington Post, billionaire Elon Musk and his staff at the 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE) are utilizing artificial intelligence technology to analyze sensitive government data to determine which expenditures need to be cut. This initiative involves projects from the Department of Education and financial expenditures, with some staff members reportedly only in their teens. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, and the specific AI tools used by the image licensing service Midjourney are not clear, but reports indicate that the software was powered by Microsoft's Azure.