# Artificial Intelligence Playbook for the UK Government

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: United Kingdom
- **Instrument type**: Guidance
- **Status**: Guidance
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Government Digital Service (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
- **Adopted**: 2025-02-10

## In brief

Artificial Intelligence Playbook for the UK Government is a non-binding guidance of the United Kingdom, issued by the Government Digital Service (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology). Its current status is guidance. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. The AI Playbook is official guidance for UK public-sector organisations on selecting, buying, building and deploying AI.

## Summary

The AI Playbook is official guidance for UK public-sector organisations on selecting, buying, building and deploying AI. It sets ten principles covering legality, security, human oversight, transparency and accountability, and explains AI capabilities, limitations and risks in plain terms. It expands and replaces the January 2024 Generative AI Framework for HMG to cover a broader range of AI technologies.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Government Digital Service (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology). Oversight: Government Digital Service; applied by departments and public bodies. Stated purpose: Give civil servants practical rules for safe, lawful and effective use of AI in public services.

## Key dates

2025-02-10: AI Playbook published, superseding the Generative AI Framework for HMG

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0202 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0202; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-artificial-intelligence-playbook-for-the-uk-government
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-playbook-for-the-uk-government
- **Source document**: Artificial Intelligence Playbook for the UK Government
- **Published by**: GOV.UK (Government Digital Service)
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Artificial Intelligence Playbook for the UK Government" [AIPT-POL-0202, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0202 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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