Anthropic is partnering with the UK Government to build and pilot an AI assistant that will give job seekers personalised career advice and help them find employment.
The government announced the partnership as part of a week of focused action on how emerging technologies like AI are being put to work for the public good.
The assistant will support people through what it called “crucial life moments,” starting with employment, offering custom guidance at the point they need it most. The technology will be entirely optional, with a pilot expected to begin later this year.
It forms part of a broader plan to use AI agents across national government services. Pip White, Anthropic’s head of UK, Ireland and Northern Europe, said the partnership was “central to our mission” and demonstrated “how frontier AI can be deployed safely for the public benefit.”
Separately, a new cohort of AI fellows backed by $1 million (roughly £800,000) from Meta and delivered through the Alan Turing Institute will spend the next year developing open-source tools for public services.
Their work will range from computer vision models that help councils prioritise transport infrastructure repairs to AI solutions that run offline within secured networks for national security use.
The fellows include specialists from the University of Surrey, King’s College London, the University of York, and the University of Manchester, alongside a senior data scientist from the Turing Institute itself.
The announcements sit within the government’s wider digital transformation agenda, launched in January 2025 alongside the AI Opportunities Action Plan. A new team called CustomerFirst, led by former Monzo executive Tristan Thomas, is also working to cut long wait times and outdated processes across public services.
