The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched an AI Community of Interest to shared developments with the technology across its group of organisations.
It has been developed with support from the Defra Technology and Innovation Team for colleagues interested in building and sharing their knowledge.
A departmental blogpost said that areas of focus include showcasing proof of concepts, discussion potential use cases, assessing lessons learned and sharing current news.
The group has been opened to people in technical and non-technical roles.
Huge importance
David Lau, technology and innovation consultant at Defra, and Ethan Summer, programme manager in the Farming and Countryside Programme, said: “In Defra we’ve increasingly begun to realise in recent months that we all needed a place where we could come together to share, given the huge importance of AI, the pace it’s developing at, and the massive impact it can (and will) have across Defra. And it’s likely that it will indeed, over time, impact pretty much everyone in our organisations.”
They added: “From our own experiences and discussions with many Defra colleagues over the last few months, there are loads of great things being explored already, so our new community represents a massive sharing opportunity.”
The group has already run a showcase on the use of generative AI in customer journeys.
