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21st July 2026 by Repowering Democracy
Authors: Ben Worthy (Birkbeck), Laszlo Horvath (Birkbeck), Julia Cushion (mySociety), Alex Parsons(mySociety) — Artificial Intelligence, as we know, is everywhere. For governments and public bodies, the possibilities for policy-making seem endless. As the UK government put it in its AI playbook ‘the potential of AI to transform public services is enormous, giving us an unparalleled…
Join mySociety at this online event, to relaunch WriteToThem in Wales, a free service for making it easy to understand and write to elected politicians.…
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