Artificial Intelligence

The Albuquerque City Council has approved a resolution directing administration to create an artificial intelligence working group to develop an official city policy shaping the technology’s use. Residents will be among its members.

The Port of Walla Walla Commission is expected to decide later this month whether to sell 500 acres of land to Advance Phase for $32 million. Should the company go ahead with its $4.8 billion plan to build 16 data centers, it would rival similar ones developed in Oregon.

CIO Craig Orgeron has a plan to help the state spark more innovation with AI — one that includes a “two-pizza team” and an executive order. He talked at NASCIO about what’s already happened and what he hopes will come with AI.

The San Francisco Police Department's high-tech means of catching criminals is facing a challenge in a federal court after a nonprofit filed suit against the maker of Flock Safety license plate reading cameras.

The company gets real-time data to officers so they can have a fuller understanding of emergency calls and the people involved. ForceMetrics last year became part of an Amazon gov tech innovation push.

The ALERTCalfornia camera system notified first responders of the fire on La Panza Ranch south of Highway 58, and state firefighters extinguished it. Mapping estimated its size at 16 acres.

Rhode Island teacher Benjamin Hamill beta tested four AI tools now available for math educators in the Kiddom classroom management system. He said the automated feedback tool gave him a “huge quality-of-life upgrade.”

An advertisement being shown in a movie theater and headed to social media uses artificial intelligence to depict three people under the age of 25 who died from fentanyl overdoses. It was created by the city and partners.

Assistant art professor Josias Figueirido created an exhibit where visitors can use their smartphones to enable a virtual-reality experience by scanning a QR code and watching characters travel through a room.

Created by executive order at the start of the year, Virginia has now set its AI Task Force in motion, aiming to support and advise policymakers on the technologies. Ten members have been named; more may follow.

A new Center for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Pennsylvania Western University will provide tools, knowledge and training for faculty to integrate AI effectively into their teaching.

A report from the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology suggests that schools should update their sexual harassment policies to better handle deepfakes, which have become a common problem in institutions across the U.S.

Infinera, the California-based company, is in discussions to land $93 million from the federal government to build new plants in Bethlehem, Pa., and San Jose, Calif. Funding would come from the 2022 CHIPS Act.

The parents of a Hingham High School student are suing after an AP U.S. History teacher failed their son for using generative AI on a project, which then got him barred from the National Honor Society.

In a Q&A with The Advocate, the dean of the business school at Loyola University New Orleans says the next generation of business leaders will need to know how to do AI-infused analytics and use the most recent tools.

A Ph.D. student at Columbia University created Curiously, a tool for teachers to build and customize AI assistants for their particular subjects and classroom needs, even if they have no coding expertise.

Gov tech supplier Civic Marketplace is offering a procurement platform backed by AI for the North Central Texas Council of Governments. The deal could promote more use of cooperative purchasing, according to backers.

Washington, D.C., CTO Stephen Miller describes a large-scale modernization project that aims to reorient government services so residents can quickly get what they need no matter how they got there.