Question follow-through · 73676
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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16 Sept 2025
Answer published
Artificial intelligence (AI) is improving the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) efficiency, security and analysis. Over the last year, that has included using AI for language translation, document classification and data analysis, in s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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