How the Federal Government is Thinking About AI

Nextgov: Artificial intelligence is making its way into the federal government’s operations—but not like Skynet from the Terminator movies.

Since May, the White House has been exploring the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the public: that is, how the federal government should be investing in the technology to improve its own operations. The technologies, often modeled after the way humans take in, store and use new information, could help researchers find patterns in genetic data or help judges decide sentences for criminals based on their likelihood to end up there again, among other applications.

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