Q&A
OTI explains their approach to AI governance and existing efforts
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Alex Foard from OTI responds to the council member's criticism by explaining their approach to AI governance and existing efforts. He emphasizes that OTI shares common goals with the proposed legislation and is working on a framework for responsible AI use.
- Foard highlights the ongoing work under the AI Action Plan
- He mentions the robust public reporting already in place through Local Law 35
- The response stresses the need to be responsive to the complex network of agency needs and the wide range of AI technologies
Alex Foard
0:18:48
Sure.
0:18:48
So to be clear, we share, again, a lot of the common goals from the proposed legislation.
0:18:53
The action plan is entirely premise around building out the framework that we as a city need to make sure that agencies are responsibly using AI technologies.
0:19:01
We also share the sentiment around encouraging innovation and making sure that agencies have the opportunity to innovate, but that we're adhering to the the values and principles that we as a city have when it comes to AI.
0:19:13
What we want to stress is that there is a lot of work that's already underway for a number of these different areas.
0:19:20
Local R35 is an excellent example of where we have really robust public reporting around algorithmic tools that are in place.
0:19:27
And we also have opportunities to continue to augment that through I mentioned one of our act actions in the action plan that relates to building out additional inventorying of tools.
0:19:37
I think we wanna make sure that the efforts that we're taking are responsive to a really complex network of agency needs, or they each have different missions.
0:19:45
We're also talking about a very wide set of technologies.
0:19:48
AI is an umbrella term that really refers to a complicated set of technologies, and we need to be responsive to that as well.
0:19:54
We are very open and wanna continue to have a conversation around where public reporting could be improved, leveraging existing pathways, and keeping some of the limitations that we have in terms of agency operations in mind.
