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Oscar Hornstein @ UK Tech News · today 04:24 EDT

AI tool was used in decision to abolish Ofwat

A government-built AI tool was used to inform the recent decision to abolish the water and sewerage regulator Ofwat. The tool, called Consult, was built for the UK government as a way to speed up the analysis of the more than 50,000 responses to a review of the water sector. According to the government, the ...

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