Office of AI publishes procurement guidelines UKAuthority

Public sector organisations have been urged to define the benefits of using AI and forming a strategy for the technology before beginning a procurement. The Government's Officer for Artificial Intelligence has highlighted the factors in draft guidelines for the public sector in procuring AI. They include advice now familiar in the public sector digital field to look beyond the solutions on offer to the outcomes desired, and to take the ethical factors into account. One of the early steps is to define the benefits and assess the risks of using AI by applying the first principle of the Data Ethics Framework. This includes setting out clearly in the invitation to tender why AI is regarded as relevant to the challenge and the public benefit that is desired.