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David Glockner

David Glockner, Inspector General of the City of Chicago — former federal prosecutor, SEC Chicago regional director, and Exelon EVP of Compliance & Audit.

Oct 14, 2026

5:55
What are the primary risks that you're assessing? For instance, is it algorithmic bias that gets brought up a lot of times when people talk about AI or even reliability issues?
6:08
Those are both the key issues.
6:10
The AI is a bit of a black box.
6:15
And to the extent that you're relying on AI to make decisions, particularly as a governmental body, you need to be very careful that those decisions are at least as good as the human decisions and that they don't reflect biases that are a product of the material that the models were trained with.
6:37
And while AI tools have come a long way, they still can be unreliable, and the decision-making processes can be opaque.
6:46
So if we're using AI, what are we doing to ensure that we've got careful controls and humans who are ultimately responsible for the decisions that people expect from their government?
7:28
How many other cities, major cities are using AI at this point?
7:34
So I don't have that information.
17:21
Do you agree with Deborah Witzberg's assessment of Mayor Johnson and his administration? How has it been for you so far?
17:28
So I would say that so far, my relationship with the mayor's office has been constructive and positive.
17:37
I mean, it's...
17:38
The, the relationship is, by necessity, distant.
17:42
I mean, we're not calling each other up all the time and, and bouncing ideas and, and thoughts off each other.
17:51
But I think it's important that, that my office have constructive relationships across the city.
18:00
In part, you know, we're-- w-we investigate, we do audits, but our real power and, and the way we really can impact the city is when departments and, and leaders in the city adopt our recommendations.

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