San Jose hosts White House officials for AI forum [Video]

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — White House officials and cities around the country joined together for a virtual forum hosted by the city of San Jose.

“We’re on the cutting edge of transforming government services to better serve everyone with the limited public dollars we have,” said San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan.

The city of San Jose hosted city, county and state governments from across the country.

Each were part of the Government AI Coalition.

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The goal is to promote responsible and purposeful AI in the public sector.

“We want to do it safely and responsibly, of course, but we have a lot to gain from leveraging AI, machine learning and other kinds of newer and emerging technologies to better serve our constituents,” he said.

Two White House officials from the Office of Science and Technology Policy joined Wednesday’s call.

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