Disruption

Testing AI’s usefulness in state government

More than a dozen states have passed laws addressing the public sector use of AI.
The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

State lawmakers seeking to regulate private sector use of artificial intelligence are also writing initial rules about how public agencies should deploy the technology, testing the waters in efforts to make AI improve the delivery of government services.

In the two years since the debut of ChatGPT, when AI entered the mainstream consciousness, governors in at least 18 states have issued executive orders on AI. States have also formed task forces and established policies to govern AI.

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