Virtual Event
AI Skills Lab | AI for Policymaking
A monthly session to get smarter on AI
Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025
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At this event, you’ll learn how to:
- Use AI prompts to speed up early-stage policy thinking
- Summarise and translate policy for different audiences
- Strengthen argumentation through prompting and iteration
Speakers
What to do next
- Catch up on the 6-minute highlights above, or dive into the full recording
- Join the Global Policymaking Community
- Check out our next AI Skills Lab event AI for Time Management
Resources
Join the Global Policymaking Community
The Global Policymaking Community is a space for conversations, insights, ideas and resources on policymaking from your peers across the global public service. This community is open to all Apolitical members.
Event Description
Invest 30 minutes a month to win back hours every day. Tempting, right?
AI Skills Lab is a new monthly series of virtual, 30-minute events, brought to you as part of the Government AI Campus. Think of them as your shortcut to working smarter, one task at a time — with tips and hacks from public servants already using AI regularly to augment their work.
This third session is all about policymaking: how to use generative AI to shape, strengthen or stress-test your thinking. You’ll learn practical ways to use prompts to draft policy summaries, explore opposing arguments, break down technical content and communicate more clearly with different audiences.
The event will feature a public servant who will walk through real-world examples of how AI is supporting their policy work, offering up prompts you can adapt and use straight away.
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Speakers
James Ancell
Head of Futures & Foresight, The Cabinet Office | Roster of Experts; Foresight and Artificial Intelligence United Nations
UK
James Ancell, is Head of Foresight in the Cabinet Office, where his team reports on the future of the world. In the course of experimenting with AI, he moved from prompting to building AI-powered tools to automate parts of his role. This included a tool that spots emerging risks from news outlets around the world and compares how different countries are approaching policy problems. Find more examples of his work on his [LinkedIn page](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-a324/).
