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Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

FedScoop

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. Zhou also pointed to record management and data storage as a potential issue.

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Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges

AWS Public Sector

Disaster reduction efforts focus on prediction, monitoring, and impact assessment through a cycle of prevention, preparedness, emergency response, and recovery. While promoting Floodmap adoption might require more risk-related awareness building, a solution like that in Durban might require more capacity and trust building.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. We now have to help our business adapt and innovate.

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Racial Equity Budgeting: A Powerful Tool to Reduce Inequalities

Inter-American Development Bank

This tool helps agencies assess how their budget might benefit and/or burden local communities, particularly Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities, and identify programs and services with the greatest capacity to move the needle on closing racial equity gaps. 2] Invest in capacity building. Federal Mandates The U.S.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

New legislation is required to impose specific minimum requirements of eg data governance and algorithmic impact assessment and related transparency across the public sector, to address the issue of lack of standards and metrics but without reliance on their development by and within the AI industry.

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Some thoughts on the US' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI

How to Crack a Nut

Section 2(g) refers to AI risk management, and states that It is important to manage the risks from the Federal Government’s own use of AI and increase its internal capacity to regulate, govern, and support responsible use of AI to deliver better results for Americans. These efforts start with people, our Nation’s greatest asset.

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OMB Releases Final Guidance Memo on the Government’s Use of AI

Government Contracts Legal Forum

The AI impact assessment must: state the intended purpose of the AI and its expected benefit; identify the potential risk using the AI and any mitigation measures beyond the minimum practices outlined in the memo; and evaluate the quality of the data used in the AI design and development. race, age, sex, etc.);