Avast ye mateys! Me hearties, 'tis time we employ AI to tidy up our bumbling government, arrr!
2023-07-21
Arr, me hearties! Methinks this here artificial intelligence be a mighty weapon in keepin' ye landlubbers informed 'bout the government, reformin' the cursed red tape, and cleanin' up the bilge rats o' waste, fraud, and abuse. Avast, 'tis a treasure worth seekin'!
In the language of a 17th-century pirate, AI is not gonna kill us, nor is it gonna save us. Arr, instead, AI has the potential to help us change, matey!Arr, very few scallywags be considerin' the opportunities this new technology offers to clean up the government, ye see. It could be the key to keepin' people informed about the government, reformin' red tape, and cleanin' up waste, fraud, and abuse. Aye, we need to turn ChatGPT onto the government, we need a ChatGVT, ye know!
A ChatGVT can take many forms, me hearties. It can provide straight answers about the newest tax plan, if a bill be stuck in committee, or the likelihood of a piece of legislation passin'. It can even be turned on the regulatory code to understand its true cost to households and businesses, arr!
Ye see, understandin' how laws, litigation, hearings, regulatory codes, and administrative actions mingle can elude even the most experienced experts. But these newfangled Large Language Models be quite effective at workin' through text with a bit of tunin', arr!
Usin' AI to turn law into code will make the true impact of government understandable and accessible, matey. We know the burden imposed by regulation be colossal, but the exact costs be hard to quantify. A ChatGVT could help sort out that problem, arr!
Some of the building blocks be bein' developed right now by me colleague Richard Evans at the Center for Growth and Opportunity. He be buildin' an open-source model of the U.S. federal and state household tax and benefit system called FiscalSim. In the future, we'll be pluggin' FiscalSim into a chatbot to better understand government policy on the ground, ye see!
Arr, turnin' all that text into computer code will make reform easier, me hearties. We'll be able to subject it to software management practices, like refactoring. A ChatGVT could be focused on refactoring the U.S. regulatory code, arr!
During the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services used AI tools to root out outdated and ineffective laws. They cleared a bunch of regulations from the books, ye know!
Some worry these tools might heap more compliance and enforcement on small businesses and families, arr. But for the first time, if there be a cost increase, it'll be apparent to everyone. Knowin' the scope of government be the first step to improvin' it, matey!
AI tools can also help government agencies upgrade their technology, me hearties. COVID showed us the cost of runnin' on old systems. Upgradin' to newer, more secure programming languages can fight waste, fraud, and abuse. Governments should be adoptin' these tools for their largest programs, arr!
Most folks be failin' to see the powerful role this new technology can play in improvin' government operations. Leaders and advocates for effective governance should be proactively engagin' with these new technologies, matey. AI tools offer promise in makin' government more transparent and efficient, arr!