Artificial Intelligence
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A survey of 386 global experts suggests governments, businesses, educators and communities must act together to counter dangerous overreliance, displaced workers, mental health problems and other risks from AI. -
The document outlining the Trump administration’s approach to AI signals less regulation and more innovation. To plan for it, state and local governments must understand what it includes — and what it omits.
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Napa Valley Unified School District's school board recently approved 10 principles to guide AI use by students and staff, mirroring recommendations from the nonprofit California School Board Association.
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How might California government make use of generative artificial intelligence? Officials suggest several ways that the technology could be introduced to state government functions.
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Last month President Joe Biden issued a new executive order on artificial intelligence, which ranks as the government’s most ambitious attempt yet to set ground rules for this technology.
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The four winners of the startup pitch competition at this year's State of GovTech event included technology that can identify deepfaked video, assist with the administration of conservatorships and more.
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Los Angeles police officers record roughly 8,000 interactions with the public on body-worn cameras, and most of that footage goes unseen. Artificial intelligence might soon be tapped to help.
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The nonprofit Complete College America recently unveiled a 78-page document enumerating more than 170 use cases for generative AI in higher education, including predictive maintenance, data analytics and tutoring.
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The state of New Jersey now has a new policy to guide the use of generative AI by state employees; this closely follows the state’s creation of the Artificial Intelligence Task Force last month.
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This marks the first ZeroEyes deployment in a state capitol building. The company, whose tools work with security cameras, recently raised $23 million and hopes to sell more often to public agencies, along with schools.
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A business professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign had ChatGPT write a script for his course, used text-to-speech AI to replicate his voice reading the script and a digital avatar speaking it.
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Some universities have developed their own on-premises generative AI tools for students and staff, which have the advantage of data privacy but may require considerable money and expertise to launch and maintain.
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The city is moving forward with its first chatbot, which will make it easier for residents to get answers to their questions and to request services. Officials have approved a three-year contract with South Carolina-based Citibot.
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The U.S. Education Department's assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development this week said students must learn about AI, it needs privacy safeguards, and teachers need to be the key decisionmakers.
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The guidelines, announced by leading venture capitalists with the backing of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, lay out how software developers should use the tech responsibly, in concert with moneyed backers.
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Iowa teachers are using artificial intelligence to draft emails, write individual educational plans and create rubrics, and they recommend students use it to check their work and come up with extra practice problems.
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AI is emerging as a critical tool to sort through record-breaking amounts of digital evidence in the fight against the online exploitation of children and teens.
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In a housing-starved market like the Bay Area, some property developers are turning to the promise of AI, hoping to cut down on design and building time and save money in the process.
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Associate Professor Shiqi Zhang and two of his students say the cost, efficiency and accessibility of artificial intelligence-powered seeing-eye assistants could improve quality of life for the hearing-impaired.
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Asked how they think artificial intelligence will their industry, several university administrators in Ohio said students are already using it, it's likely to transform a lot of jobs and will allow for more flexibility.
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Jim Schweizer, lead artificial intelligence researcher for Global Data Sciences Inc., has called on the city of Aurora, Ill., to develop an AI action plan, similar to what New York City unveiled in October.
