[LINK] How can Local Government use AI to improve services?

[David]

On Thursday, 24 July 2025 10:35:53 AEST Tom Worthington wrote:
> Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) where Tim Turner, is running a meeting on "How can the ACT Government use #AI to improve #government services?" organised by the Pearcey Foundation.

I believe I detect a certain eagerness among many organisations to jump abord the AI bandwagon in order to be seen to be modern and "with-it", and supposedly to improve productivity.  But if the ACT (or indeed Federal) Governments are considering AI, IMO the decision-makers had better be well aware of its' fiscal & environmental costs, its' limitations & constraints, and its' inherent legal traps for over-eager players.

In other words, an AI machine is neither intelligent or responsible despite the mnemonic, it "hallucinates" and can produce nonsense or legally misleading output, or in short, it's a machine.

DavidL