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Ministry of Defence: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have used AI in the last 12 months.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
16 Jan 2025
Answer
22 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have used AI in the last 12 months.

  2. 16 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Defence is experimenting with a range of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to increase productivity and efficiency across the Department. That includes the use of informational chatbots, machine learning applications and generative AI to ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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