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AI Tools

Request date
17 March 2025

Outcome
Full disclosure

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Request

  1. Are staff within your regulatory body under a general instruction to use AI or Generative AI tools to assist your work?
  2. Is your regulatory body currently using AI tools or Generative AI tools to assist your work?
  3. What is your regulatory body's budget for Generative AI tools?
  4. Can you name the AI tools that your regulatory body uses?
  5. Does your regulatory body have an AI strategy?
  6. If your regulatory body does not have an AI strategy, is it planning to have an AI strategy?

Response

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

The Gambling Commission's responses to your enquiries are as follows:

  1. Are staff within your regulatory body under a general instruction to use AI or Generative AI tools to assist your work?

No.

  1. Is your regulatory body currently using AI tools or Generative AI tools to assist your work?

No.

  1. What is your regulatory body's budget for Generative AI tools?

No information is held falling within the scope of your request.

  1. Can you name the AI tools that your regulatory body uses?

No information is held falling within the scope of your request.

  1. Does your regulatory body have an AI strategy?

No information is held falling within the scope of your request.

  1. If your regulatory body does not have an AI strategy, is it planning to have an AI strategy?

Yes.

Review of the decision

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your Freedom of Information request you are entitled to an internal review of our decision. You should write to FOI Team, Gambling Commission, 4th floor, Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B2 4BP or by reply to this email. 

Please note, internal review requests should be made within 40 working days of the initial response. Requests made outside this timeframe will not be processed.

If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may then apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have already exhausted the review procedure provided by the Gambling Commission. 

It should be noted that if you wish to raise a complaint with the ICO about the Commission’s handling of your request for information, then you are required to do so within six weeks of receiving your final response or last substantive contact with us.

The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (opens in new tab), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Information Management Team
Gambling Commission

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