How AI Automation Saved 13 Days per UK Civil Servant in 2024
A recent UK Government AI experiment revealed that certain tasks can be fully automated, saving up to 13 working days per person annually.
The results are documented in two reports: Mapping the Potential by the Alan Turing Institute, and The Government Digital Service’s cross-government experiment of Microsoft 365 Copilot
Between September and December 2024, 20,000 UK civil servants participated in the trial. The findings identified four fully automatable activities: