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<\/a>Chase DiFeliciantonio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 14, 2023Updated: July 14, 2023 4:57 p.m. (SFChronicle.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier this year, New York City Public Schools blocked access to ChatGPT<\/a>, the chatbot built by OpenAI and launched this past November that ignited the current wave of innovation in machine-learning artificial intelligence tools. Then, in May, the department changed course, embracing the chatbot and even using it to create lesson plans and to grade papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an example of a city-level agency adjusting policies in real time when it encounters a new, transformative technology. But, in San Francisco, where ChatGPT was born, many city officials across separate departments say there are no policies in place about how employees and contractors should use machine-learning technology, or other kinds of artificial intelligence, when providing city services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither the city\u2019s Department of Technology nor Committee on Information Technology<\/a>, whose job it is to make \u201cdecisions regarding the future of San Francisco\u2019s technology,\u201d responded to emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When The Chronicle asked how various city departments might use artificial intelligence, many of those queries were redirected to the city\u2019s technology department, the mayor\u2019s office or the office of the city administrator. Follow-up queries on individual department policies on AI made it clear the mayor\u2019s office and the city administrator are working on policies but nothing is yet in place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Mayor has asked the City Administrator\u2019s Office to undertake the lead in developing guidelines for AI, particularly generative AI, so that we can best incorporate this new technology in how we serve the public,\u201d Jeff Cretan, spokesperson for Mayor London Breed, said in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the San Francisco Unified School District, which has lessons that focus on digital ethics and agency, doesn\u2019t have a policy on how AI should or should not be used and hasn\u2019t weighed in on the use of tools like ChatGPT, spokeswoman Laura Dudnick wrote in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe district is aware of this technology and will continue to monitor the impact of AI, as we do with any changes that may affect the education space,\u201d Dudnick said. \u201cWe are currently not blocking this technology use nor have we created or changed policy as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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