The American state of Pennsylvania is the first government entity to introduce ChatGPT as a work tool for its employees.
The project, a pilot program launched later this month, it should help employees do their jobs better. The test will be limited to one limited number of employees of administrative offices but, if successful, could be extended to other state employees and even applied in other states.
According to the governor Josh Shapiro, in this regard the feedback from those preparing to carry out the pilot program will be very important. If successful, Pennsylvania is ready to issue 100 licenses to employees to access ChatGPT Enterprise to its employees.
Specifically, during the presentation of the project, it was specified how the tool can be useful for activities such as create texts, write descriptions e relationships but also facilitate the hiring of new staff and make it more accessible political languageconsidered by many to be complicated and obsolete.
Pennsylvania and ChatGPT: an innovative project, which could create new and interesting scenarios
The objective of this potentially revolutionary test was described Neil Weaversecretary of the Pennsylvania Office of Administrative Affairs, who stated how “The goal with the pilot is to work closely with a small number of employees to understand where we can have the greatest impact using generative AI tools“.
Although the chatbot Of OpenAI is already widely used in the corporate context, its application in a government context is an absolute novelty. In this regard, he expressed himself the same Sam AltmanCEO of the company that created ChatGPT, stating how the collaboration with the Pennsylvania government will provide valuable insights to further improve the use of AI in the future.
As always happens when talking about AI, there are more or less concrete risks. In this regard, Josh Shapiro wanted to reassure citizens, ensuring that no personal data will be used for training GPT-4.