WHAT TO KNOW: Following Governor Newsom’s September 2023 Executive Order to prepare California for the progress of Generative Artificial Intelligence, the administration releases a report examining the most beneficial uses and potential harms of GenAI in state government.
SACRAMENTO — Today, the Newsom Administration released a report outlining the state’s opportunities to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) while highlighting potential harms. This is the first of several expected reports and deliverables required by the Executive Order the Governor issued two months ago.
WHAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID: “This is an important first step in our efforts to fully understand the scope of GenAI and the state’s role in deploying it. We’re taking a nuanced, measured approach – understanding the risks this transformative technology poses while examining how to leverage its benefits.”
WHAT’S IN THE REPORT:
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Provides a preliminary analysis of risks and high-risk use cases, while still reaping the economic and transformative benefits of GenAI;
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Examines how the state could prioritize tools to expand program access, improve the speed of ongoing work, summarize and classify information, and utilize complex datasets, and highlights the importance of secure, controlled pilots in doing so;
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Highlights potential uses for improving accessibility to government services, including identifying groups that – for language barriers or other reasons – are disproportionately not accessing services for which they are eligible;
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Describes the potential GenAI risks, noting that the issues must be addressed to ensure that Californians will collectively benefit from this technology.
