what's going on from your perspective with ai in virginia

I mean, AI is always the perpetual interesting topic.

We are, of course, very excited in Virginia and trying to figure out new ways to leverage, put it in place within government, looking for ways to make our citizens experience, improve less friction, as well as to be efficient within government overall.

So we're looking at a lot of how is the best way for us to invest in this, who are the bright partners for the Commonwealth to leverage for bringing in things like improving our permitting processes and showing how we can move things along more quickly.

We had some really great work from our Department of Environmental Quality who just won some awards for pushing AI within their processing.

And we all know those permits are really important for folks right now, especially in Virginia.

And we are looking for new and interesting ways to sort of apply that across the board.

And so when you think about both AI and cyber, I mean, what are you, as a CIO, kind of looking out at and being like, oh man, this might really actually change the game?

Did anybody get hit by that one? Yes.

Another reason why we need to prepare now.

No, and I think you're right.

I think, you know, our biggest challenge, I think, when we're talking about a lot of this stuff is both understanding the problem, right? Because this is one of those things where it is definitely, I've got a colleague that he likes to say it's a future him problem.

So, you know, it is truly something that is going to end up, you know, coming at us very quickly, like the train analogy.

And, you know, looking to understand both what the impact of that is, is probably the hardest thing to describe to folks.

Because we're used to We spend a lot of time in security.

So that's another thing to kind of think through.