United Kingdom, May 14 -- An artificial intelligence (AI) tool has been used by the UK government to review public responses to a consultation about non-surgical cosmetic procedures, like lip fillers and laser hair removal.

In a bid to save millions, the government built 'Humphrey', a bundle of AI tools designed to speed up the work of civil servants and cut back time spent on admin, and new AI tool 'Consult' is part of that.

Consult has now been used to speed up analysis of what the public and experts told the Scottish Government in a recent consultation.

Scottish Government experts also manually looked at the 2,000 consultation responses - and the results were almost identical.

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said: "No one should be...