Mayor Matt Mahan of San Jose promotes the use of AI tools among city workers to enhance efficiency and public service delivery. The city aims to train 1,000 of its nearly 7,000 employees to utilize AI for tasks such as pothole complaint handling and crime-solving via surveillance. This initiative reflects a growing trend among public and private sectors to harness AI, despite potential challenges. Andrea Arjona Amador exemplifies early adopters by successfully using AI to secure funding for electric vehicle chargers.
Elected officials do a tremendous amount of public speaking. Mayor Matt Mahan's recent itinerary has taken him from new restaurant and semiconductor startup openings to a festival of lowriding car culture.
Mahan's plan is to adopt AI tools to eliminate drudge work and help the city better serve its roughly 1 million residents.
The city intends to have 1,000, or about 15%, of its workers trained to use AI tools for a variety of tasks, including pothole complaint response and bus routing.
One of San Jose's early adopters was Andrea Arjona Amador, who used ChatGPT to secure a $12 million grant for electric vehicle chargers.
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