Prediction Isn’t Intelligence: How Predictive Models Really Work in Government A hiring tool changes your "personality" score based on whether there's a bookshelf behind you in an interview. A hospital model suggests asthmatics are safer—because it learned how to respond to the ...

At the airport, you look into a camera, get a green checkmark, and walk through.

That moment depicts both the promise and risk of AI in government. New #RebootDemocracy post featuring @randomwalker.bsky.social on why predictive models need governance.

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Prediction Isn’t Intelligence: How Predictive Models Really Work in Government A hiring tool changes your "personality" score based on whether there's a bookshelf behind you in an interview. A hospital model suggests asthmatics are safer—because it learned how to respond to the triage system, not the disease. This InnovateUS workshop explains why predictive AI needs governance, not just accuracy.

At the airport, you look into a camera, get a green checkmark, and walk through.

That moment depicts both the promise and risk of AI in government. New #RebootDemocracy post featuring @randomwalker.bsky.social on why predictive models need governance.

📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/predict...

Prediction Isn’t Intelligence: How Predictive Models Really Work in Government A hiring tool changes your "personality" score based on whether there's a bookshelf behind you in an interview. A hospital model suggests asthmatics are safer—because it learned how to respond to the triage system, not the disease. This InnovateUS workshop explains why predictive AI needs governance, not just accuracy.

At the airport, you look into a camera, get a green checkmark, and walk through.

That moment depicts both the promise and risk of AI in government. New #RebootDemocracy post featuring @randomwalker.bsky.social on why predictive models need governance.

📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/predict...

AI and the Future of State Regulation This piece examines how the Commonwealth of Virginia is using artificial intelligence to modernize regulatory review, shifting the focus from regulating AI to governing with it. Drawing on recent reforms led by the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management under Governor Glenn Youngkin, the article outlines how AI tools are being applied to analyze regulations, reduce administrative burden, and improve transparency. The "Virginia Model" offers a practical model for other states exploring how AI can strengthen core government functions.

The #CommonwealthofVirginia is using AI to modernize regulatory review, including analyzing statutes, reducing duplication, and making rules clearer while keeping humans in charge.

On #RebootDemocracy blog the “Virginia Model” shows how other states could strengthen regulatory capacity with AI.

AI and the Future of State Regulation This piece examines how the Commonwealth of Virginia is using artificial intelligence to modernize regulatory review, shifting the focus from regulating AI to governing with it. Drawing on recent reforms led by the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management under Governor Glenn Youngkin, the article outlines how AI tools are being applied to analyze regulations, reduce administrative burden, and improve transparency. The "Virginia Model" offers a practical model for other states exploring how AI can strengthen core government functions.

The #CommonwealthofVirginia is using AI to modernize regulatory review, including analyzing statutes, reducing duplication, and making rules clearer while keeping humans in charge.

On #RebootDemocracy blog the “Virginia Model” shows how other states could strengthen regulatory capacity with AI.

AI and the Future of State Regulation This piece examines how the Commonwealth of Virginia is using artificial intelligence to modernize regulatory review, shifting the focus from regulating AI to governing with it. Drawing on recent refo...

The #CommonwealthofVirginia is using AI to modernize regulatory review, including analyzing statutes, reducing duplication, and clarifying rules.

On the #RebootDemocracy blog, the “Virginia Model” shows how other states can strengthen regulatory capacity with AI.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-and-...

Using AI to Improve Public Services in New Jersey: An interview with Dave Cole New Jersey’s Office of Innovation has received a Public Benefit Innovation Fund grant to expand its AI platform with tools that help residents access benefits faster and with fewer errors. In this conversation, Beth Simone Noveck and NJ Chief Innovation Officer Dave Cole discuss how document processing, eligibility matching, feedback analysis, and memo-generation tools are already improving programs such as Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, and Summer EBT, and what it takes to deploy AI responsibly within government.

How does AI move from pilot to public infrastructure? In a new #RebootDemocracy interview, Dave Cole unpacks how New Jersey is scaling responsible AI across agencies backed by the Public Benefit Innovation Fund.

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Using AI to Improve Public Services in New Jersey: An interview with Dave Cole New Jersey’s Office of Innovation has received a Public Benefit Innovation Fund grant to expand its AI platform with tools that help residents access benefits faster and with fewer errors. In this conversation, Beth Simone Noveck and NJ Chief Innovation Officer Dave Cole discuss how document processing, eligibility matching, feedback analysis, and memo-generation tools are already improving programs such as Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, and Summer EBT, and what it takes to deploy AI responsibly within government.

How does AI move from pilot to public infrastructure? In a new #RebootDemocracy interview, Dave Cole unpacks how New Jersey is scaling responsible AI across agencies backed by the Public Benefit Innovation Fund.

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Using AI to Improve Public Services in New Jersey: An interview with Dave Cole New Jersey’s Office of Innovation has received a Public Benefit Innovation Fund grant to expand its AI platform with tools that help residents access benefits faster and with fewer errors. In this con...

How does AI move from pilot to public infrastructure? In a new #RebootDemocracy interview, Dave Cole unpacks how New Jersey is scaling responsible AI across agencies backed by the Public Benefit Innovation Fund.

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Big Tech Wants AI Without Rules. Here’s How Workers are Fighting Back AI is reshaping the workplace faster than public policy can keep up, often in ways that expand corporate power, weaken worker rights, and undermine democratic oversight. But across sectors, workers an...

On the #RebootDemocracy Blog, unions are setting real limits on surveillance, algorithmic management, and AI-driven job cuts, while also using AI to strengthen organizing and worker voice.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/big-tec...

Predictive policing is failing because it predicts police activity, not crime.

A smart new piece on the #RebootDemocracy Blog by Mihir Kshirsagar of @princetoncitp.bsky.social breaks down how diagnostic data can actually reduce harm and improve safety.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/why-goo...

Predictive policing is failing because it predicts police activity, not crime.

A smart new piece on the #RebootDemocracy Blog by Mihir Kshirsagar of @princetoncitp.bsky.social breaks down how diagnostic data can actually reduce harm and improve safety.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/why-goo...

Why “Good Guys” Shouldn’t Use AI like the “Bad Guys”: The Failure of Predictive Policing This essay argues that predictive policing continues to fail not because police departments lack data, but because they are using the wrong kind of data, in the wrong way. Applying low-stakes commerci...

Predictive policing is failing because it predicts police activity, not crime.

A new piece on the #RebootDemocracy Blog by Mihir Kshirsagar of @princetoncitp.bsky.social breaks down how diagnostic data can actually reduce harm and improve safety.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/why-goo...

Governing AI: The Air Force’s AI Land Rush The Air Force is quietly auctioning off slices of its bases for private AI data centers. They call it innovation; it looks like privatization. Fifty-year leases, 3,000 acres of military land, and no public say. If this is how we build the future, who’s really in command?

The Air Force plans to lease 3,000 acres of active bases for private AI data centers.
Innovation or privatization?

A new #RebootDemocracy Blog piece by @bethnoveck.bsky.social asks what happens when public land becomes AI infrastructure.

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Governing AI: The Air Force’s AI Land Rush The Air Force is quietly auctioning off slices of its bases for private AI data centers. They call it innovation; it looks like privatization. Fifty-year leases, 3,000 acres of military land, and no public say. If this is how we build the future, who’s really in command?

The Air Force plans to lease 3,000 acres of active bases for private AI data centers.
Innovation or privatization?

A new #RebootDemocracy Blog piece by @bethnoveck.bsky.social asks what happens when public land becomes AI infrastructure.

Read →rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/governi...

#AIGovernance

Designing AI for Trust: Lessons from Tarjimly’s Translation Platform for Humanitarian Action When refugees needed language support, Tarjimly turned everyday volunteers into lifelines. In this reflection, CEO Atif Javed traces how the platform evolved from a Facebook Messenger experiment into ...

“Design for trust. Build for empathy.”

In a new #GlobalAIWatch piece for the #RebootDemocracy blog, Tarjimly CEO Atif Javed shares how the translation platform utilizes AI to amplify, rather than replace, human connection.

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Designing AI for Trust: Lessons from Tarjimly’s Translation Platform for Humanitarian Action When refugees needed language support, Tarjimly turned everyday volunteers into lifelines. In this reflection, CEO Atif Javed traces how the platform evolved from a Facebook Messenger experiment into a global translation network, one now partially powered by AI. His key lesson is that designing for trust means using technology to amplify, not replace, human empathy in moments of crisis.

“Design for trust. Build for empathy.” In a new #GlobalAIWatch piece for the #RebootDemocracy blog, Tarjimly CEO Atif Javed shares how the translation platform uses AI to amplify, not replace, human connection.

📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/designi...

Designing AI for Trust: Lessons from Tarjimly’s Translation Platform for Humanitarian Action When refugees needed language support, Tarjimly turned everyday volunteers into lifelines. In this reflection, CEO Atif Javed traces how the platform evolved from a Facebook Messenger experiment into a global translation network, one now partially powered by AI. His key lesson is that designing for trust means using technology to amplify, not replace, human empathy in moments of crisis.

“Design for trust. Build for empathy.” In a new #GlobalAIWatch piece for the #RebootDemocracy blog, Tarjimly CEO Atif Javed shares how the translation platform uses AI to amplify, not replace, human connection.

📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/designi...

Research Radar: The Emperor's New Agents - Why AI Won't Fix Broken Government The Agentic State is an ambitious and inspiring blueprint for rebuilding government around AI agents that can act and decide autonomously. It powerfully diagnoses real failures in how the public sector designs, delivers, and manages services. While AI is giving us ways to accelerate change, the prescribed cure may be premature: most of what’s broken in government requires organizational reform, not automation.

The Agentic State is bold and worth reading, but many of the problems it tackles can be solved without automation. Before we turn to agents, we need to fix the systems they’d be automating.

#ResearchRadar by @bethnoveck.bsky.social on #rebootdemocracy:

Research Radar: The Emperor's New Agents - Why AI Won't Fix Broken Government The Agentic State is an ambitious and inspiring blueprint for rebuilding government around AI agents that can act and decide autonomously. It powerfully diagnoses real failures in how the public sector designs, delivers, and manages services. While AI is giving us ways to accelerate change, the prescribed cure may be premature: most of what’s broken in government requires organizational reform, not automation.

The Agentic State is bold and worth reading, but many of the problems it tackles can be solved without automation. Before we turn to agents, we need to fix the systems they’d be automating.

#ResearchRadar by @bethnoveck.bsky.social on #rebootdemocracy:

Governing the Undefined: Why the Debate Over Superintelligence Misses the Point As headlines warn of “superintelligent AI” threatening human extinction, a new open letter reignites familiar fears. But beneath the apocalyptic rhetoric lies a deeper problem. The narrative around ar...

AI doomerism misleads. In his latest #RebootDemocracy piece, Dane Gambrell argues we must govern real harms—like surveillance and labor exploitation—not vague fears of “superintelligence.” Read via #GlobalAIWatch: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/governi...

Governing the Undefined: Why the Debate Over Superintelligence Misses the Point As headlines warn of “superintelligent AI” threatening human extinction, a new open letter reignites familiar fears. But beneath the apocalyptic rhetoric lies a deeper problem. The narrative around artificial superintelligence, long embraced by Big Tech, diverts attention from the real and immediate challenges of AI and how our democratic institutions can address them.

The more we fixate on “superintelligence,” the less we govern what matters now. Dane Gambrell argues that speculative AI fears distract from real harms—surveillance, labor exploitation, democratic erosion—and the power behind them.

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#GlobalAIWatch #RebootDemocracy

Governing the Undefined: Why the Debate Over Superintelligence Misses the Point As headlines warn of “superintelligent AI” threatening human extinction, a new open letter reignites familiar fears. But beneath the apocalyptic rhetoric lies a deeper problem. The narrative around artificial superintelligence, long embraced by Big Tech, diverts attention from the real and immediate challenges of AI and how our democratic institutions can address them.

The more we fixate on “superintelligence,” the less we govern what matters now. Dane Gambrell argues that speculative AI fears distract from real harms—surveillance, labor exploitation, democratic erosion—and the power behind them.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/governi...

#GlobalAIWatch #RebootDemocracy

Re-thinking AI: How a Group of Civic Technologists Discovered the Power of AI to Rebuild Trust in Government After two years of research, the RethinkAI collaborative released Making AI Work for the Public—a comprehensive field review of how U.S. governments adopt AI. Since 2019, over 1,600 AI-related bills h...

In today’s powerful new #RebootDemocracy post, civic technologists Neil Kleiman, Mai-Ling Garcia, and Eric Gordon reflect on the hard lessons from the past and propose a new governance model: Adaptation, Listening, and Trust.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/rethink...

Cities are using AI to solve real problems, from evictions to civic engagement. But is it enough to make government better, not just faster?

RethinkAI’s new report, featured on the #RebootDemocracy Blog, lays out a new model: Adapt. Listen. Trust.

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#RebootDemocracy #CivicAI

Cities are using AI to solve real problems, from evictions to civic engagement. But is it enough to make government better, not just faster?

RethinkAI’s new report, featured on the #RebootDemocracy Blog, lays out a new model: Adapt. Listen. Trust.

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#RebootDemocracy #CivicAI

🗞️ What caught our eye this week?

Read the full roundup of democracy, governance, and AI news from around the world:
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#RebootDemocracy #AIforGovernance #GlobalAIWatch #NewsThatCaughtOurEye

News That Caught Our Eye #81 - News That Caught Our Eye Hamburg uses AI to turn citizen feedback into urban policy, Boston showcases tools that improve public trust, and tribal nations are piloting AI for governance while protecting sovereignty. New York b

🗞️ What caught our eye this week?

Read the full roundup of democracy, governance, and AI news from around the world:
🌐 rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...

#RebootDemocracy #AIforGovernance #GlobalAIWatch #NewsThatCaughtOurEye

News That Caught Our Eye #81 - News That Caught Our Eye Hamburg uses AI to turn citizen feedback into urban policy, Boston showcases tools that improve public trust, and tribal nations are piloting AI for governance while protecting sovereignty. New York b

🗞️ What caught our eye this week?

Read the full roundup of democracy, governance, and AI news from around the world:
🌐 rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...

#RebootDemocracy #AIforGovernance #GlobalAIWatch #NewsThatCaughtOurEye

Research Radar: The Agentic State: A 20-Year Wish List, Finally Within Reach? This week’s Research Radar highlights The Agentic State, an ambitious whitepaper arguing that AI agents could reshape the core functions of government. It’s a timely vision for public sector transform...

The Agentic State project just dropped a new Vision Statement.

Back in June, I unpacked the original whitepaper and asked: Can AI help us build institutions worthy of public trust?

📖 Read my take → rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/agentic...

#AgenticState #AIforGovernance #RebootDemocracy