Maryland's top privacy, information security and data officials now report both to the statewide CIO and directly to the governor.

The California Civil Rights Council weighed changes that would prohibit the use of AI in certain hiring and employment practices.

If signed by the governor, New York's LOADinG Act will put a strict approval process around any use of automated decision-making systems.

Generative AI is already accelerating some of state and local government's most tedious procurement processes, but not without new risks.

State governments are forming new laws and policies that set "guardrails" to limit AI's potential harms. But officials know their reach is limited.

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs and Mekela Panditharatne, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program, say generative AI is a growing challenge for…

Artificial intelligence has been used in cybersecurity for years, but agencies are increasingly using generative AI for an added layer of protection.

Most state and local government websites aren't going full generative AI on their chatbots yet, but the prevalence of digital assistants is expanding.

The NewDeal Forum announced a new AI task force convening state and local government officials to explore AI's potential to improve government services.

A new project out of Utah Valley University aims to undermine politically motivated deepfakes and the misinformation they spread.