Gov. Gavin Newsom is expanding the role of artificial intelligence in state government by providing state employees access to Anthropic\u2019s assistant Claude to help supplement day-to-day work.<\/p>\n
The governor announced an agreement with the AI company that allows state agencies to use the technology to analyze information, draft and summarize documents and improve services.<\/p>\n
Newsom said in a statement that the partnership was meant to use AI \u201cresponsibly, transparently, and in service of people,\u201d noting that the technology is not meant to replace state workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs state employees, our goal is to provide our fellow Californians with the best possible service,\u201d Government Operations Agency Secretary Nick Maduros said in a statement. \u201cTo do that, we need to make sure our teams have access to the best modern tools, including Claude and other emerging technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The technology will be available to all state agencies through a new portal managed by the California Department of Technology, according to the governor\u2019s announcement. The state received a 50% discount on the price of the service, an offer that is available to local governments in California, the governor noted.<\/p>\n
Monica Hern\u00e1ndez, a CDT spokesperson, said that departments will pay to use Claude individually and there is not a statewide budget allocation for this technology. She added that as of now, no departments have started using the technology under the newly announced contract.<\/p>\n
The state is already using Anthropic\u2019s technology in various departments. The Governor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services and CDT have begun using Claude for cybersecurity purposes and the Department of Motor Vehicles is using the technology to reduce customer wait times.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuilding AI responsibly and in service of people has been our approach from the start, and that\u2019s exactly what this partnership puts into practice,\u201d Anthropic\u2019s Head of Americas Kate Jensen said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Newsom has embraced AI tools in state government with varying degrees of success.<\/p>\n
As part of Newsom\u2019s 2023 executive order<\/a> directing agencies to find uses for the technology, several departments piloted projects with the intent of making government more efficient.<\/p>\n But about half of those projects<\/a>, which included an internal AI assistant to help the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration answer taxpayers\u2019 questions, were discontinued after departments did not realize sufficient improvements from the technologies.<\/p>\n The Newsom administration has also assembled a council<\/a> to provide advice on how California can use the technology responsibly; rolled out an AI-powered \u201cdigital assistant\u201d<\/a> that government employees can use to find policy information; and unveiled training<\/a> for state workers on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gavin Newsom is expanding the role of artificial intelligence in state government by providing state employees access…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3224,53,25,39825,182,9501,20187,47584,134],"class_list":["post-90059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai-company","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-california-department-of-technology","tag-claude","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-state-agencies","tag-state-employees","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}