27596 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Digitising Government

27596 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Digitising Government: Which external stakeholders including business, NGOs, individuals and any other persons or people not part of the public service or parliament, if any, broken down by name and date of consultation, were consulted as part of the design and operation of the AI training for the public service?

Hon Judith Collins: Corrected reply: The AI Masterclass Series for senior leaders is built around peer-to-peer discussion with public service senior leaders on their experience implementing AI. No external stakeholders were consulted in the development of this series. The AI development programme is currently being piloted with 10 agencies. One principle for this training is to focus on public service context for AI and remaining vendor agnostic, so external consultation is not a focus. The delivery partner for the AI Development programme is Deloitte. Both sets of public sector AI training has been developed in partnership with the Leadership Development Centre which is part of the Public Service Commission and who has expertise leading training across the sector.