Use of Artificial Intelligence by State Bureaucracies Requires Strict Oversight

AI can be used to shift accountability from bureaucrats to technology, to reinforce and extend bureaucratic biases, and to reduce transparency by hiding bureaucratic action “behind the code.”

While both Trump’s executive order on AI and a Wisconsin legislative task force give a nod toward the need to scrutinize the use of AI by the administrative state, both are woefully inadequate in this most understudied area of AI concern. … Bureaucracies can and have used AI models as effective decision-makers, despite ongoing problems with flawed outpu…