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A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (www.gov.uk)
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  • Over 20,000 civil servants were given the latest AI tech for 3 months, using it to draft documents, summarise meetings and more
  • from policy officials using it to cut through jargon and streamline consultations, to Work Coaches speeding up support for job seekers – officials said the tech boosted their ability to deliver the Plan for Change
  • comes as expansive research shows half of office work can be helped by AI, as government continues push to save £45 billion by creating a lean, modern state using tech
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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Nice.

Now to just trash all the work they did during this time and redo it, or a few years down the line, there will be complaints coming up of the lives they messed up by hard-to-find mistakes in the stuff they did.

Gotta remove the evidence of foul play.