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I a small town I live near the mayor and the counsel mostly did other stuff. Every election there was a bit of a struggle to find someone that would run. AI mig
by tocs3 2y ago
I a small town I live near the mayor and the counsel mostly did other stuff. Every election there was a bit of a struggle to find someone that would run. AI might be a solution (with plenty of overwrite) to do some of the rote things that just need to get done. I am not excited about having it make decision but doing rote paperwork would be useful in the (shrinking number) places where man power is limited and the work is more or less rote.
- yawpitch 2y agoIn all seriousness it would be an exceptionally bad idea to let any current AI do anything whatsoever in your local government, except maybe summarize emails and write boilerplate letters that someone would then vet very carefully. No current form of AI is, by any sensible definition, able to make any form of decision whatsoever.
- tocs3 2y agoI going to respectfully disagree (at least is part). So, small town officials that are (as far as I know) still sometimes serving in volunteer positions it can be difficult to wade through paperwork and minutia of bureaucracy[1]. There are still towns with hundred of residents (not thousands). It should always fall on a competent human to vet things but really I would think any help is welcome. However care should (but will not) always be taken. It is true of AI, hiring a contractor, or relying on help already in the office. [1] I have waded through some of the paperwork myself and it can be mind numbing for the uninitiated.
- yawpitch 2y agoBoth the contractor and the help already in the office can think and understand the reason why the minutiae exists. Nothing whatsoever about current AI should encourage anyone to use it in a governmental scope of any size… down that path is madness.