Oct 18, 2026 · 11 min · 6 segments
**Part 1: The Less Flashy Side Of AI: Can It Help Make The Government Better?** - Artificial intelligence gets a lot of attention for what could go wrong, but some of its most useful applications may…
Beth NoveckGuestGary PriceHost
But there is another kind of AI, and again, without getting into the technical details unless we want to, um, that is just a...
What I would think about as, in some ways, just a better next generation word processor.
This is very bounded technology that are just, uh, really tools for assisting us with writing, with analyzing language, with data processing.
Again, in some very limited functions in terms of their autonomy, but I think very powerful in terms of what we can do with them.
That's Beth Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University, and director of the Burns Center for Social Change.
She's also worked as the deputy US chief technology officer in the Obama White House, and more recently, as New Jersey's founding chief innovation officer.
Her new book, Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy, looks at how governments and communities are already using these tools.
But there is another kind of AI, and again, without getting into the technical details unless we want to, um, that is just a...
What I would think about as, in some ways, just a better next generation word processor.
This is very bounded technology that are just, uh, really tools for assisting us with writing, with analyzing language, with data processing.
Again, in some very limited functions in terms of their autonomy, but I think very powerful in terms of what we can do with them.
That's Beth Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University, and director of the Burns Center for Social Change.
She's also worked as the deputy US chief technology officer in the Obama White House, and more recently, as New Jersey's founding chief innovation officer.
Her new book, Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy, looks at how governments and communities are already using these tools.
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