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The Squawk
For the people making the AI decisions, not the ones building it.
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20,000 flags, 57 citations: Dallas’s AI code cameras face a December hearing
Dallas put AI cameras on its trash trucks to flag code violations. Thousands of flags later, the council wants a hearing and the city has no return-on-investment analysis.
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Read the pilot numbers twice: Nebraska’s statewide AI assistant
Nebraska took its DMV chatbot statewide on pilot numbers that don’t agree from one report to the next. It also staged the rollout. Both lessons count.
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Partially implemented: NYC’s AI oversight, three years after the audit
A state follow-up audit found New York City has partly carried out all three of its 2023 AI oversight recommendations and finished none. The gaps start with the inventory.
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The second wave never came: What Meta’s AI staffing plan shows
Meta planned to hand thousands of jobs to AI agents, then called off the second round. The reported numbers show why output and results are different measures.
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