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D.C. Mayor Announces AI Oversight During Microsoft-Hosted Event

The D.C. government will prioritize values like safety, equity, accountability, transparency and privacy when using AI technology, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday during a Microsoft-hosted event. Bowser signed an order outlining the city’s AI guidelines: societal benefit, "safety and equity,…

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accountability, transparency, sustainability, and privacy & cybersecurity.” Her office highlighted the government's use of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft’s Azure AI Government Cloud. Microsoft hosted Bowser’s announcement at its Innovation & Policy Center in Washington. Her “commitment to embracing innovative solutions, such as AI, demonstrates her dedication to creating a more responsive and citizen-centric government,” said Fred Humphries, Microsoft corporate vice president-U.S. governmental affairs.