Mastronardi: AI will enable proactive policy recommendations beyond municipal dashboards
Nick Mastronardi · 7 - Amplifying Citizen Voices with Polco Co-Founder Nick Mastronardi with Polco's Nick Mastronardi · Nov 21, 2024 · at 5:14
Nick Mastronardi, co-founder and CEO of Polco, explains how artificial intelligence will expand government analytics capabilities.
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“And so I think it undersells the vision a little bit because AI is such a transformative technology. I think we can go even beyond a Bloomberg terminal suite of dashboards, maybe even like proactive policy recommendations and evaluation.”
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