Question follow-through · 59913

Civil Servants: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether civil servants receive (a) training and (b) guidance on managing the risks of non-deterministic outputs in AI-assisted decision-making.

answeredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Answering body
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
17 Jun 2025
Answer
23 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether civil servants receive (a) training and (b) guidance on managing the risks of non-deterministic outputs in AI-assisted decision-making.

  2. 17 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    DSIT has provided civil servants with both training and guidance on managing the risks of AI, including non-deterministic models such as LLMs. Training includes over 70 free courses on AI fundamentals, ethics, machine learning and generative AI, available...

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