Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Outdated technology, poor data and a lack of digital skills mean the UK will struggle to boost public sector productivity by deploying artificial intelligence, an influential cross-party group of MPs has warned.\u00a0The verdict by the House of Commons public accounts committee casts doubt on Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s promise in January of a new digital centre inside the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to \u201crevolutionise how AI is used\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009to improve citizens\u2019 lives and make government more efficient\u201d.More than 60 per cent of government bodies said access to good quality data would be a barrier to implementing AI, and 70 per cent said it was difficult to recruit and retain staff with skills in the fast-evolving technology, according to a report published by the committee on Wednesday. It found that this was in part because much of the data needed to train AI models was locked away in \u201clegacy\u201d systems, which account for 30 per cent of central government IT systems. Such systems were based on \u201can end-of-life product, out of support from the supplier, impossible to update\u201d, the MPs said, adding that even where funding had been set aside to upgrade them, it was often later reallocated.\u201cThe government has said it wants to mainline AI into the veins of the nation, but our report raises questions over whether the public sector is ready for such a procedure,\u201d said Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chair of the public accounts committee (PAC). The prime minister and his cabinet are betting heavily on the promise of AI to improve lacklustre productivity and underpin a revival in growth and living standards across the economy.\u00a0Andrew Bailey, Bank of England governor, said this week that facilitating AI was now the most likely route \u201cto move the needle on growth\u201d against a backdrop of ageing populations and rising trade tensions. Rachel Reeves is also counting on advances in technology to slash civil service running costs by 15 per cent by the end of the decade. The chancellor said last weekend that the target was \u201cmore than possible\u201d, with AI already used to spot fraud and error in the tax and benefits systems.\u00a0But the PAC warned that the government had \u201ca long way to go\u201d to build a market of AI suppliers and improve its own procurement, with a risk that it would become \u201clocked in\u201d to expensive contracts with a few large providers.\u00a0It also said the science department had made only slow progress in setting ethical standards for AI adoption in the public sector and ensuring the transparency needed to build public trust.\u00a0Clifton-Brown said there were \u201cserious concerns that DSIT does not have the authority over the rest of government to bring about the scale and pace of change that\u2019s needed\u201d. \u00a0The science department said the PAC\u2019s findings \u201creflect much of what we already know, which is why we set out a bold plan to overhaul the use of tech and AI across the public sector\u201d. \u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s a \u00a345bn opportunity if\u00a0we get AI right, which will help us deliver on our Plan for Change and drive up living standards across the country,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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