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3 days ago | route-fifty.com | Chris Teale

Polling in recent years has consistently shown a severe lack of trust in the federal government, albeit with much higher levels of trust for local government. But a greater reliance on technology, especially artificial intelligence, could erode that trust in local government, especially if it is not used transparently and has real-world impacts, like the denial or approval of benefits claims.

4 days ago | route-fifty.com | Chris Teale

In April 2023, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order mandating that the state government provide better, more user-friendly online services to residents. The order, which also created the Commonwealth Office of Digital Experience, known as CODE PA, mandated that online services be streamlined so it would be easier for residents to carry out all manner of activities, whether it be renewing a license, accessing benefits or making reservations for campgrounds.

4 days ago | route-fifty.com | Jessica Huseman

This article was originally published by Votebeat. You know the REAL ID that you need to have if you want to board a plane? The deadline to get one was supposed to be May 7. But just days before that, the Department of Homeland Security hit pause, again. Twenty years after Congress passed the REAL ID Act, too many people still didn’t have the right kind of ID, so enforcement was delayed — as it has been multiple times. It’s easy to see why.

5 days ago | route-fifty.com | Chris Teale

Leaders remain excited about artificial intelligence’s promise to revolutionize state and local government as they push forward with use cases that automate various processes, streamline services and answer resident questions, among others. But even amid public-sector employees’ growing comfort around the technology, state officials warned that governments should take advantage of this moment to improve other areas of technology.

5 days ago | route-fifty.com | Alexandra Kelley

BERKELEY, Calif. — The public and private sectors have once again come together to support a new “game-changing” supercomputing installation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which will be called “Doudna.”Doudna is due in 2026 and will be powered by liquid-cooled hardware from Dell and Vera-Rubin central-and general-processing unit software from NVIDIA.