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OTI's approach to supporting agencies in AI implementation

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Alex Foard explains OTI's approach to supporting agencies in AI implementation, emphasizing their advisory and enabling role. He outlines various ways OTI assists agencies in deploying technology and developing AI-related skills.

OTI's role is to support and enable agencies to deploy technology effectively
The agency is developing policies to guide AI implementation across city departments
OTI focuses on activities such as encouraging skill building, understanding workforce needs, and providing resources to agencies
Foard emphasizes that OTI's support goes beyond policy creation to include a range of enabling activities

Alex Foard

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Yeah.

0:44:06

I mean, I think the the the reference that you made to what CTO Fraser has said is still applicable.

0:44:11

Why are we advising implementation involved in the coordination that I think is consistent with how we're seeing these processes.

0:44:18

Again, it is too early to know exactly what the specific steps of our process would look like.

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That's our commitment for the 2nd year.

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But I think our overall goal is always to be supportive of agencies at the end of the day because they are the ones who have to build the technology, procure the technology, and use the technology on a day to day.

0:44:34

So we do have to be aware of where their business needs are in place.

0:44:42

I mean, I can't speak to the minutiae of procurement.

0:44:45

OTI doesn't support every single contract for technology across the city.

0:44:54

Sure.

0:44:54

I I I certainly am not part of OTI's procurement team, so I I take specific questions back to them.

0:44:59

But the premise here, of course, is that OTI is there to support and enable techno enable agencies to deploy technology.

0:45:08

We do have commitments to build out policy, and that is what's in development right now.

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And then some of the other work that we do to support agencies isn't the in the form of a policy per se, but, again, some of these other activities.

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You know, how can we encourage agents sees to think about skill building?

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How are we understanding what skills they need in their workforce?

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How can we provide them with that resource?

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Right?

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This is a different sort of category of activity that we're also looking to support.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

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Notia, has it handed their contracts and their specific technology contracts?

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I think I thought the commissioner has said that before, but I'll double time.

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Thank you.

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I'd like to acknowledge committee member Bob Holden.

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And then I'm going to pass it to council member, Paladino, for her questions.

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Thank you.

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