The Complicated Interplay: AI and Government

June 26, 2023

In this episode of the Data-Smart City podcast Stephen Goldsmith, Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, interviews MIT Dean Daniel Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and expert on artificial intelligence and computer science. They discuss the different ways that generative AI could be used by governments, in service of constituents, and what kinds of operational standards are required for the productive and safe use of AI technologies.

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