Artificial Intelligence

From housing to homelessness, state officials want to hear from vendors of generative artificial intelligence for ideas on confronting some significant issues. A large language model showcase is set for later this month.

A guide from the Data Foundation is intended to be a comprehensive resource for policymakers, with guidance to support improved data governance amid the rise of artificial intelligence technology.

Decision intelligence, a kind of artificial intelligence often associated with optimizing business operations, can analyze student data and give insights on when and how student support staff can reach out.

In the first case of its kind in the country, a Charlotte-area man is charged with using AI to manipulate music streaming platforms to siphon off over $10 million in royalties, federal authorities said.

Millions may have already received phone calls generated by artificial intelligence, promoting or disparaging a candidate using faked, but familiar voices, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

Their system, DeepFire, analyzes data on previous fires, weather conditions and other factors to anticipate potential wildfires and detect new ones. It is advancing in an ongoing competition to develop firefighting technology.

The nonprofit's new edition of its accelerator program will include 16 startups, and will be run in partnership with the National League of Cities and the GovAI Coalition. Its mission: to help implement and scale AI at the local level.

A top concern among educators remains that when students use AI to write essays or come up with ideas for projects, they miss out on the hard and focused thinking that builds creative reasoning skills.

The Internet is full of doom-laden stories proclaiming that AI-generated deepfakes will mislead and influence voters, as well as enabling new forms of personalized and targeted political advertising.

Due to questions about what the software ultimately does with the information that’s inputted, Maryland officials say they are approaching the emerging technology with extreme caution.

The agency is testing technology from ZeroEyes to identify guns in its “L” stations. It will send images to a company operations center for review before alerting law enforcement and public officials. Testing will run through summer 2025.

The bill would compel AI companies to take measures to protect the public from cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, and prevent AI from developing weapons or enabling automated crime.

Educators at both the county and the college level are rapidly getting up to speed on AI issues such as legal disclaimers, parental permissions, policies, precautions and potential uses.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed sent a letter opposing state Sen. Scott Wiener's landmark artificial intelligence regulation bill, the same day tech billionaire Elon Musk came out in support of it.

As governments increasingly put end users at the forefront of how they're developing digital services, we checked in with state CIOs to see where that effort intersects with the rise of artificial intelligence.

The Iowa Department of Education invested $3 million to bring the EPS Reading Assistant to elementary schools statewide. The tool uses speech recognition technology to correct students as they read out loud.

The Jefferson County Communications Center in Colorado has adopted a new platform to improve emergency operations. The new system uses artificial intelligence to improve efficiency.

Business leaders are among those calling on elected officials to again take up a multibillion-dollar economic development bill that didn’t pass. It includes agreement on the need to boost programs, in areas including artificial intelligence.