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Scotland Office: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKScotland OfficeTabled Answered 8 September 2025UIN 73691

The question

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

Answered by Mr Douglas Alexander

Officials have used two prototype tools in the last year which are only accessible by government employees: GCS Assist and Redbox. These tools harness the latest transformative artificial intelligence technology. Officials can “chat” securely with a Large Language Model and summarise or ask questions of documents.

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