{"id":537771,"date":"2026-04-18T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537771\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:56:08","slug":"ai-part-of-3-4m-project-to-modernise-gloucestershire-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537771\/","title":{"rendered":"AI part of \u00a33.4m project to &#8216;modernise&#8217; Gloucestershire authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used as part of a \u00a33.4m project to modernise an authority, and &#8220;get a grip&#8221; on rising costs, a council has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire County Council said the Stronger Futures programme focused on using AI and digital tools to cut waste, improve services, crackdown on unnecessary spending and improve value for money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deputy leader Colin Hay, who announced the plan, said the council was &#8220;not going to sit back and wait for financial pressures to force damaging cuts on our communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A decision is expected on 22 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used as part of a \u00a33.4m project to modernise an authority, and &#8220;get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-537771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}