This week, Fast Company published a piece by Roundtable Cofounder and CEO Madeleine Smith explaining the importance of context for public sector AI. Below is an excerpt.
Public servants today face a double burden: They’re simultaneously charged with running our most important community functions—like disaster preparedness and administering elections—while the technology at their disposal is outdated and ill-fitted to the job.
The rise of AI has upended how private companies operate, but public servants across agencies lack AI tools designed specifically with government work in mind.
In a perfect world, public servants could trust mass-market AI. But provisioning critical services requires a high bar. Quickly deploying technology prone to generating inaccuracies is an unacceptable tradeoff for those solving society’s hardest problems.
Read the full article on Fast Company here: https://www.fastcompany.com/91356445/public-sector-ai-will-succeed-or-fail-based-on-context
