Governor Gavin Newsom organized a press conference in Los Angeles last week to boast the adoption of artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of the state government.
This is quite dull stuff, then Newsom obtained its value from news by contrasting the California IA program with the obligatory bars of the federal services of President Donald Trump via his department of government efficiency, led by the former boyfriend, industrialist and inventor of Newsom, Elon Musk.
“I could have easily come here with sunglasses and chainsaws – you know where I am going – and I drew your attention,” Newsom told journalists. “We are Doge but better.”
He kicked Trump and Musk, saying: “They did not get closer to the savings they said. I think it was very damaging.”
Newsom’s remarks on Trump, Musk and Doge represent his latest political repositioning, of a severe critic after Trump recovered the White House, with kindness with Trump while the state sought $ 40 billion in forest recovery grants, entertainment of pro-Trump personalities on its new podcat, and recovering the role of the resistance in the resistance bite.
Newsom contrasting Doge with California AI is not only a metaphorical section. The question of whether the latter will result in an existential improvement in the effectiveness of the state government is open to the issue.
“Genai is here,” said Newsom about generating AI, “and it increases every day in importance. We know that the government of the State can be more effective, and as a place of birth of technology, it is natural that California leads to this space. In the Golden State, we know that effectiveness means more than cutting services to save money, but rather build and refine our state government to better serve. Californians. “
The initial employment by the state of the new technology will help improve the congestion of highways, road safety and services at the Ministry of Tax and the Administration of costs, he said.
Is it going?
The sorry register of the state of the implementation of information technologies before the emergence of AI as a tool guarantees skepticism.
Although Newsom has written “Citizenville”, a book praising technology as a transformative factor in the government, state technological projects did not behave well during its governor, mainly pursuing a record of chess and reverse that many years ago.
There is another aspect of the new embrace of Newsom AI which is also disturbing due to the uneven state file on technology – a change in the way the State implements AI projects which could make more difficult for legislators and the public to know if they work as promised.
By coincidence or not, while Newsom praised AI in Los Angeles, the budgetary analyst of the Legislative Assembly published a report which raises red flags.
The subject is the victim of Max, but basically, the state changes the way it approves certain types of technological projects.
He used a market and implementation processing process to provide a complete image of technological projects, because the funds are sought from the Legislative Assembly, but the new Newsom process would do the phase projects, and “certain information currently available … such as the total reference system of a project, the calendar and the scope may not be so easily available (in the new system).
Implicitly, the Lao report warns the legislature that the shortcomings of a project may not be known until it is too late to stop its adoption. “Consequently, to help the legislature to assess and understand the new process over a more reasonable time, we recommend that the legislator requires reports on completed project planning activities and limit the new process to a small subset of projects (with additional reports) during the next financial year.”
As complex as it may be, the change of implementation could lead to even worse technological disasters than to maintain the current process.
Dan Walters is a calm columnist.
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