Improving ACT Government Services in Ten Minutes

Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network where I taking part in the Pearcey Foundation awards night. The ACT Chief Minister is arriving shortly minutes. Before then the staff from the AI CoLab are going to help us prepare advice for the minister on services. 

The specific problem is homelessness on Civic streets. This is a high risk topic which could show the biases built into AI from the documents it was trained on. I did not get a good feeling from the AI summary which had a US accent, a country famous for its failure to address homeless. If I was being cynical I would suggest part of the solution is to have the tech companies promoting AI to pay their fair share of tax. 

Each year the ACT Chief Minister sets a challenge for the Pearcey Foundation. Last year this was improving government services with AI. Next year I suggest increasing the diversity of tertiary students in Canberra, both domestic and international. This would be both for equity and to ensure the long term viability of our educational institutions.

ps: The Chief Minister announced Dr Lachlan Blackall as the Pearcey Award winner.