Phil Rumens

Phil Rumens

Artificial Intelligence Practitioners Group

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This week, in partnership with the Local Government Association. LocalGov Digital launched our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practitioners Group. The group sits alongside the Local Government Association’s AI Network, and whilst there’s absolutely a need to talk about ethics, data and…

Surveying the Standard

We’re excited to be launching a new survey to explore the take-up and effectiveness of the Service Standard in councils. Created five years ago, the Standard has been helping teams within central government to create and run great public services…

LocalGov Digital AI

A rendition of a room containing 8 people of various sexes and ethnicities dressed in casual clothing. They are working on building a piece of artificial intelligence. The room has large glass windows and outside a typical English town

It’s fair to say there’s a lot of interest in artificial intelligence at the moment, driven first by the novelty and ease of use of services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and then the increasing integration of Microsoft’s Copilot with their other…