How should thresholds adapt locally? How do you suppress duplicate detections? How do you associate objects through time when observations become ambiguous? That led me to experiment with ideas such ...

There are a great many concerns around artificial intelligence voiced by the public and state staffers, but few uses of the technology have gotten more immediate buy-in than Washington state’s use of ...

I came across the phrase “vicious cycle of edits.” I was curious, so I asked a Large Language Model AI (which is how the AI prefers to be identified). Here are its responses to my questions, unedited ...

For decades, human resource officials have been worrying about the difficulties of implementing effective knowledge transfer practices leaving agencies with a chronic malady: institutional brain-drain ...

Working as a child protective investigator in D.C. is a high-pressure job in a high poverty and high-needs city—and getting workers up to speed is a difficult task. The team working on D.C.’s ...

We live in a time of wonders. And wonders carry confusion with them, not least in how they are named. As that famous visitor in another Wonderland once mused: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, ...

Because surely that drives and informs their task. Else, they will be up to anything than their real task. Whether a public servant is at the front or back Ultimately, there is the public it ought to ...

A growing question for public institutions is not only whether AI systems are accurate, efficient, or safe. It is also whether democratic institutions can still see the conditions they need to govern ...

And yet, there’s another trend happening at the same time that is blurring these traditional political alignments and setting the stage for a recalibration of how Americans identify, align and ...

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises make up about 95% of businesses in Paraguay, yet historically received less than 9% of public contracting spend. Many smaller businesses struggled to find ...

Apprenticeships can create incredible opportunities — but the journey isn't always easy. There may be deadlines, workplace pressures, difficult feedback, competing responsibilities, assessment nerves ...

Public servants spend a lot of time in meetings. But learning how to run a great one isn’t easy. At Apolitical's recent virtual event on How to Be a Great Facilitator, expert Vince Verlaan packed 30 ...