{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Hope","title":"Episode 13: GovCIO's Amy Kluber on AI in Government and the Newsroom","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":678,"description":"\nAmy Kluber and her team at GovCIO cover how federal agencies adopt technology including AI. We recorded this conversation on September 22, the day after AI came up at the UN, capping six weeks of news that ran from security incidents to superintelligence talk to government regulation. As to those comments at the UN, Amy is reserving judgment on superintelligence until she sees AI operate at that level for her.\n\nPersonally, Amy’s path into AI was gradual. As federal agencies started prioritizing it, she decided she couldn't judge the technology without using it herself. Now she's working through what AI means inside a newsroom: Whether you can trust its output, if your audience will trust you for using it, and what policies you need.\nHer most useful build so far is a Copilot agent that pulls four years of Flywheel Awards nominations out of scattered forms, Word docs, spreadsheets, and SharePoint folders, turning them into a database her team can ask questions of. Her starting point was the right one: find the annoying, repetitive process first, then apply automation to it.\nAmy's AI hope is that it shrinks the distance between people and what they're capable of doing, with human judgment still in the loop. For government, that means less time on hold, faster access to services and benefits, and quicker paths to a human when it matters.\n1:09 Six weeks of AI news in a nutshell\n2:25 AI in the newsroom: trust, ethics, and new policies\n3:23 Why her adoption was gradual\n5:14 Curing writer's block\n5:34 Building a Copilot agent for the Flywheel Awards\n7:17 Automating the ankle biters\n8:30 How federal agencies are applying AI\n8:52 Amy's AI hope\n10:02 What AI could do for the American citizen","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3geCJ1VW0lJp_L0iMNFeYncMeLLmjyFI3vHgwOHbnAI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNDEy/Y2FmNGNjODJhZjk0/Njk1NzJkMjk0YmY5/YjdiMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}