Public Sector organisations use of digital services: FOI release

Information requested

Does the Scottish Government or Scottish Government bodies such as the NHS use services like Amazon OpenSearch Service or other AI or non-AI but hi-tech search engines to:

A: search for information in databases

B: locating historical data held on government systems.

 

Response

Does the Scottish Government or Scottish Government bodies such as the NHS use services like Amazon OpenSearch Service or other AI or non-AI but hi-tech search engines to:

A: search for information in databases – YES

B: locating historical data held on government systems - YES

The Scottish Government has an AI Register that requires Public Sector organisations to register their use of AI which may be of interest and can be found here What is the Scottish AI Register? |Transparency Report

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