The advent of generative AI is probably the single biggest opportunity in a generation to transform government to improve productivity, efficiency and public value.

It would be hard to miss the generative AI hype and hope has taken centre stage. But it does feel like AI, with its ability to self-generate apparently confident responses to almost any problem, is a moment equivalent to the arrival of the desktop computer and the extraordinary productivity lifting word processing, spreadsheet and PowerPoint applications that came with it.