The Cabinet Office has announced plans for a number of AI discovery projects over the next 12 months to identify new ways to detect fraud against the public sector.

Minister of State at the Cabinet Office Baroness Neville-Rolfe said the first project will use AI to identify entities registering and bankrupting successive companies to avoid paying debts, known as ‘phoenixing’.

All of the projects will tested by the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) in accordance with the Government’s Generative AI Framework.