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#Alaska #AI #gov #LawEnforcement

'The Anchorage Police Department (APD) has concluded its three-month trial of Axon’s Draft One, an AI system that uses audio from body-worn cameras to write narrative police reports for officers—and has decided not to retain the technology. Axon touts this technology as “force multiplying,” claiming it cuts in half the amount of time officers usually spend writing reports—but APD disagrees.'

techdirt.com/2025/04/03/anchor

Techdirt · Anchorage Police Department: AI-Generated Police Reports Don’t Save TimeThe Anchorage Police Department (APD) has concluded its three-month trial of Axon’s Draft One, an AI system that uses audio from body-worn cameras to write narrative police reports for officers—and…

Public Technology (UK): Government sets up Reddit account for public comms. “The government has set up a Reddit account as part of an effort to use more modern and diverse forms of media. The new Reddit account ‘UKGovNews’ is the latest in a raft of changes implemented by the government’s evolving communications operation, which includes the New Media Unit created by No10 in November.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/public-technology-uk-government-sets-up-reddit-account-for-public-comms/

#children #EarlyEducation #gov #GovernmentPolicy

'... states take different approaches to structuring governance, influencing collaboration across education, health, and economic and family supports.

The Early Childhood Governance Landscape provides a clearer picture of these structures across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.'

news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/04/01

Vanderbilt University · New tool maps how states govern early childhood programsBy Jenna Somers

#gov #transparency #FOIA

'The FOIA.gov Search Tool was recently upgraded to leverage advancements in machine learning. This upgrade is expected to significantly improve the results and resources it delivers to the public. Initially launched in October 2023, the Search Tool helps users locate already-public information or the correct agency to submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.'

justice.gov/oip/blog/upgraded-

www.justice.gov · Upgraded FOIA.gov Search Tool Delivers Improved ResultsEnhancements to the Search Tool’s artificial intelligence functionality improve public access to agency information.

AI can't do your job
"By firing #skilledhumanworkers and replacing them with spicy #autocomplete, #Musk is assuming his final form as both the kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you with a defective chatbot and as the fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss. Musk is transforming key #gov functions into high-speed error-generating machines whose human minders are only the payroll to take the fall for the coming tsunami of #robotfuckups."
@pluralistic
pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asb

pluralistic.netPluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#gov #bureaucracy #history

'Hundreds of administrative tablets – the earliest physical evidence of the first empire in recorded history – have been discovered by archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq. These texts detail the minutiae of government and reveal a complex bureaucracy – the red tape of an ancient civilisation.'

theguardian.com/science/2025/m

The Guardian · ‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq findsBy Dalya Alberge