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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 26 September 2025UIN 73689

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.

Answered by Ian Murray

DCMS follows the UK Government’s AI Playbook principles on safe, effective and responsible adoption of AI, and works closely with DSIT as the “Digital centre of government”.

Any use of third party AI tooling is subject to multidisciplinary assurance prior to any use, including Cyber security, Data Protection, Knowledge and Information Management, and Technology assurance.

DCMS is in its early days in terms of AI usage and measuring benefits to productivity. In the past year the Department has used AI for the following:

  • Summarising large documents and emails

  • Analysis of large documents, drawing out key information and drafting reports

  • Drafting meeting notes

  • Generating draft content

  • Enhancing our departmental data science capability

  • Proof of concept of using AI large language models (LLMs) to analyse free text responses to a public consultation

AI produced data or drafts are manually reviewed. No decisions are made by the Department based on AI outputs, without manual checks and manual intervention.

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