U.S. GAO – GAO Has Found New Ways to Save the Federal Government Billions of Dollars

The scenarios provide ‘a structured way of exploring plausible AI futures’ to support more robust policy development, the government said The UK’s Government Office for Science (GO-Science) has set out five scenarios that could unfold over the next four years as artificial intelligence begins to ‘reshape our world’. The ‘AI Scenarios 2030’ report has been created to…

This study provides pre-registered, experimental evidence on the use of non-generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to support students in large-enrollment undergraduate courses. We find the chatbot messaging increased students’ final grades and engagement with academic supports, such as tutoring. Treatment effects were generally consistent across student demographics, with the exception of treated women in a…

Election workers count Fulton County ballots at State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jessica McGowan | Getty Images A federal judge in Atlanta on Tuesday blocked a Department of Justice subpoena seeking the names of election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, from the 2020 election. President Donald Trump has falsely claimed…

We thank Brian Copeland, Lucas Davis, Tatyana Deryugina, Jenya Kahn-Lang, Matthew Kotchen, Severin Borenstein, Stephanie Weber, Catherine Wolfram, and participants at the UC Berkeley Energy Camp for helpful discussions, Andrew Tang and Benji Reade Malagueno for excellent research assistance, and the Sloan Foundation through the Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy series, the Cowles…

The last few weeks should end any illusion that the United States can improvise its way through frontier AI policy. What we have witnessed was not serious governance. It was vibe policymaking: ad hoc, deal-by-deal reactions with no clear standard, public explanation, or predictable process. The result was not just confusion. It exposed a deeper…