Special Briefing: AI in Government—More Efficiency but Fewer Workers?

From improving policing and trash collection to creating the documents of bureaucracy, Artificial Intelligence is slowly making its way into state and local governments. AI’s arrival heralds a new era of governmental efficiency while threatening the jobs of almost 18 million workers—11 percent of the US nonfarm labor force. Confirmed speakers include:

• Jon Hartley, Policy Fellow, Hoover Institution Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century Podcast Research Fellow, Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin
• Megan Kilgore, City Auditor, Columbus, Ohio
• Howard Neukrug, Executive Director, The Water Center at Penn and Professor of Practice, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
• Leigh Palmer, Vice President, Google Public Sector LLC
• Thomas Sanchez, PhD, AICP, Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University

Moderated by William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance Public Finance Adviser and Penn IUR Fellow, and Susan Wachter, Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and Wharton Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, this briefing is the sixty-third in a series of sixty-minute online conversations featuring experts from the national research networks of the Volcker Alliance and Penn IUR, along with other leading academics, economists, and federal, state, and local leaders.