A legislative process power exploring artificial intelligence started its work this week by studying how state government presently makes use of AI.
Job power co-chair Rep. Matt Lehman (R-Berne) started the primary assembly by studying off an extended listing of execs and cons of artificial intelligence.
“Now, for the sake of full disclosure, yesterday I went onto ChatGPT and I requested this query: ‘I need to know the professionals and cons of AI for a presentation to legislative leaders.’ And in 22 seconds, that’s what printed out,” Lehman mentioned. “It’s fantastic and it’s scary.”
State government is already utilizing AI in a number of methods. The Division of Workforce Improvement makes use of it to develop suggestions for coaching, training and different assets to individuals making use of for unemployment advantages.
The Workplace of Expertise makes use of it internally to scan safety logs and search for warning indicators. And it’s testing a brand new chat bot the general public can use to discover state government data.
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IOT Chief Info Officer Tracy Barnes assured lawmakers the data individuals put into the chat bot stays inside state government.
“So, our knowledge’s not being fed into public fashions or public ChatGPT or public LLMs in any capability,” Barnes mentioned. “And that’s the massive piece that we’re working and specializing in proper now could be governance and safety — to be sure that any knowledge that we ingest doesn’t get made out there to something on the general public, on the skin.”
Lawmakers will proceed to explore different AI points, together with whether or not to put any guardrails into state regulation and the price of AI to state government.
Brandon is our Statehouse bureau chief. Contact him at bsmith@ipbs.org or observe him on Twitter at @brandonjsmith5.