At Apolitical, we’re always looking for innovative ways to help public servants solve 21st century problems. With our AI products and services we’re putting the knowledge of our 250,000 public servant members at your fingertips.
AI search
We use OpenAI to generate answers to your questions. These answers are produced by grounding foundational Large Language Models (LLMs) with Apolitical’s content to produce tailored results. Your answers may also include supplementary information obtained externally from Apolitical’s platform, drawn from data that OpenAI’s models have been trained on. For more information about how Apolitical uses AI, please review our AI Principles
AI Course Assistant
On some courses, we provide an AI Course Assistant to support your learning experience. Please take care not to input any sensitive or personal data. The Assistant will answer your questions based on the course content, as well as third party information drawn from OpenAI’s models. The Assistant is also powered by third party processors, Pinecone and LangChain. We use Pinecone to host the Apolitical course content, and LangChain to help evaluate the quality of the responses of the Assistant.
Futura
We are developing Futura, a new AI-powered workforce adaptation and mapping tool, which will enable governments worldwide to plan for the implementation of AI across their departments. In its current state, Futura enables public servants to accelerate their work and career with AI by understanding which elements of their job can be augmented by AI.
To draw insights from Futura, users will need to be logged in to their Apolitical account. However, Futura will not access your Apolitical profile, and therefore does not process data including users’ names, email addresses or biographical information. Futura is powered by Supabase, which will store inputs made to Futura, including your job title, tasks, a pseudonymised User ID and ratings, to allow you to review your previous assessments. We also rely on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to process (but not store) your inputs. Futura is also powered by third party processors, Pinecone and LangChain. We may retain the inputs and outputs from the Futura on LangChain for up to 400 days.
Terms of Use for the AI tools on Apolitical
Your use of this Service is subject to Apolitical’s Terms and Conditions and OpenAI’s Usage Policies. By engaging with AI tools, you acknowledge that you have read and accept these terms.
Please refrain from including any personal, sensitive, or classified information in your inputs to AI features on the Apolitical Platform. Please also do not use the AI features to conduct any of the following activities:
Political campaigning or lobbying
Activity that violates people’s privacy, including personal information about other people
High risk government decision-making
Financial, legal or health advice without a qualified person reviewing the information
Illegal activity
By using this service, you acknowledge and understand that any output generated by this service is dependent on:
the quality and availability of information contained on our site which has been composed by independent third party public servants and/or generated via a third party Artificial Intelligence provider; and
the quality and accuracy of the information entered by you into the service, for which you are solely responsible and liable.
You acknowledge that the output generated by your use of the Services is provided for general information purposes only and has not been independently verified by a human source prior to it being made available to you. Any information provided to you as a result of your use of the Service does not constitute legal or any other form of advice or guidance. It is your responsibility to confirm that the output generated by the Services is correct and suitable for your intended purpose.
Apolitical provides no warranty, representation or guarantee as to the content of the output of the Services or the accuracy of the information contained therein, or that the Service will be error free and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and regulation disclaims any and all liability in relation to the same. By using the Service, you acknowledge and confirm that you have understood and agreed to the foregoing.
AI and your data
For detailed information about how your data is processed when using this feature, please refer to Apolitical's Privacy Policy, OpenAI’s Privacy Policy, LangChain's Privacy Policy and Pinecone's Privacy Policy.
Please note that we do not share your personal data with OpenAI, Pinecone or LangChain. We may associate your input with a pseudonymised user ID, which is shared with LangChain for evaluation purposes. The sub-processors will also process information you input in your question, and the answer it creates. We, nor our third party processors, do not use data you submit via this feature to be used to train future models. OpenAI deletes your data after 30 days. We retain the inputs and outputs from the AI Course Assistant on LangChain for 400 days.
Last updated September 2025