Q&A
OTI's current and future role in monitoring AI tools used by agencies
0:40:03
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The discussion focuses on OTI's current and future role in monitoring AI tools used by city agencies. Alex Foard explains that the monitoring process is still being developed as part of the year 2 commitments in the action plan.
- OTI is working on developing a specific monitoring process for AI tools
- The process aims to understand potential risks, implement mitigation strategies, and monitor their effectiveness
- Foard emphasizes that this is a new process being built from scratch, without existing playbooks to follow
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:40:03
Is there any monitoring of AI tools agency that agency that OTI does?
0:40:10
Besides, like, kinda, like, what's in the report?
0:40:12
Like, are you monitoring is there an active role that OTI plays in what's an agency divulges?
0:40:18
We're using such and such AI technology for this purpose.
0:40:22
They've met all the guidelines of the report that you need.
0:40:25
Do you all monitor that?
0:40:29
Or what what happens?
0:40:30
Sure.
Alex Foard
0:40:31
So that's that's the monitoring piece that I was referring to as a commitment for year 2, for the auction plan.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:40:35
What is monitoring?
Alex Foard
0:40:37
Well, that's something that we need to be working on getting more specific about.
0:40:40
So the premise is that we need to better understand the potential risks, put in place the mitigation for those risks, and then monitor to make sure that that mitigation is working.
0:40:50
That's not a process that exists for us to pull off the shelf.
0:40:53
There isn't a lot of examples us to just take a playbook and apply here.
0:40:56
So we really need to be reflecting on what the agency's current problems are, what policies we care about, and then how we actually operationalize those.
0:41:04
So that's what we're building from scratch.
