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The future of generative AI in public sector

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Dave Erickson
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1,216
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Summary

Generative AI is increasingly being explored by public sector organizations, as discussed in a conversation with Adelaide O’Brien from IDC Government Insights. Currently, 59% of government agencies are in the early stages of AI adoption, with 62% planning to use AI for customer service and support in the next year. IDC outlines a three-stage adoption framework: initial internal productivity enhancements, more disruptive innovations like cross-agency data sharing, and expansive new business models addressing systemic issues. However, there are significant concerns about data privacy, ethics, and accuracy, with 43% of global government leaders worried about control over data and intellectual property. To address these issues, strategies like using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) are recommended to improve AI output quality by integrating proprietary data, enhancing security, and ensuring human oversight to mitigate misinformation risks.

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Trend Post Mentions Total Month Mentions Posts Companies MoM
LLM 6 1,884 250 103 -28%
RAG 6 690 102 38 -37%
AI Guardrails 1 44 24 15 -71%
AI Model Fine-tuning 1 365 91 52 -37%
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