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This is a great audio interview about the use value of AI in government from KQED, discussing:

✅ Reducing repetition to help with the overwhelming volume of work
✅ Rewriting content to make it easier to understand
✅ Reducing the volume of text in a regulation for comprehension
✅ Translating council meetings to extend community reach
✅ Identifying unsafe intersections that require attention

The interview features conversations with:

• Jason Elliott, deputy chief of staff to Governor Gavin Newsom
• Jennifer Pahlka, author, “Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better”; senior fellow, the Nisaken Center and the Federation of American Scientists
• Khaled Tawfik, chief information officer, Information Technology Department of the City of San Jose

Listen to the 55min recording here:

• “Generative AI is Coming to California’s Public Sector. What Now?” – KQED
  https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906001/generative-ai-is-coming-to-californias-public-sector-what-now