Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence training should be mandatory for state employees to better prepare California for the anticipated growth of the new technology, a new report has recommended.

Leaders hope NVIDIA’s resources, training and networking opportunities will help improve competency in artificial intelligence among San Jose city employees, as well as faculty and students at San Jose State University.

Artificial intelligence may have been the topic on many minds this year, but cybersecurity and risk management topped NASCIO’s annual list of the top 10 priorities for state CIOs. AI did, however, rise to second place this year.

City officials have approved a request from Missoula police for 120 new Tasers and a bundle of add-on services, including AI software that writes up to 80 percent of police reports.

This year, 18 states passed laws that make clear that sexual deepfakes depicting minors are a crime. Experts say schools should update their policies to account for these AI-generated images as well.

As a new federal administration prepares to assume control, the GovAI Coalition Summit showed the local promise of artificial intelligence, from solutions available to the leaders ready to make them work.

The university is working with the nonprofit Operation HOPE and Sam Altman, who leads OpenAI, to start training people from kindergarten all the way through college on AI, focusing on south-side students.

Matt Mahan, mayor of San Jose, Calif., politely pushed back on calls to slash government and cautiously answered a question about the planned federal Department of Government Efficiency, during the GovAI Coalition Summit.

After working with higher education institutions on their approaches to integrating generative artificial intelligence, consultants at KPMG think of their clients as trailblazers, synergists, mavericks or stragglers.

Hickman County, Tenn., is a sparsely populated county with a limited budget for law enforcement. But the deployment of new dashcams backed by artificial intelligence is giving fresh advantages to the police there.

A $100 million grant for a University of Michigan supercomputing and artificial intelligence lab, set up in partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is expected to create 200 jobs over 10 years.

John Toney, the state’s chief information security officer, has been appointed a visiting fellow by the National Security Institute. Through this position, he will learn from cyber execs, building his knowledge to better serve Vermonters.

For all the uncertainties of the near future, such as what industries and job titles will exist in the years ahead, experts are convinced artificial intelligence will continue driving change in work and education.

A new front in the battle over the benefits of AI versus its risks is opening up in law enforcement, where police are increasingly using the software to write up incident reports — to the concern of civil libertarians.

As the capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose has become a leading force in pushing local government agencies to be more efficient and deliberate by applying artificial intelligence.

A new graduate program launching in 2025 aims to help data scientists, educators and administrators make the most of AI in education settings, covering technical knowledge as well as ethical impacts and social contexts.

Carefully curated data sets and plenty of teacher testing are required to make artificial intelligence-based ed-tech tools suitable for K-12, experts said in a webinar this week organized by Leanlab Education.

The state’s unemployment office reports significant benefits from the new technology, which officials said could help government agencies in and outside the state avoid long-term contracts with vendors.