Soon, a million hours of video footage and transcriptions from various U.S. government entities will be searchable on Citizen Portal.
Next up: articles that capture the main topics covered in all government meetings, with quotes taken from the transcripts.
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Be among the first to get articles summarizing meetings.
These articles will explain what is going on, as if written by a journalist that is relying on the actual transcripts and not making things up.
As the historical record of transcripts grows and as the “context window” or memory capabilities of AI grows, you’ll be able to track topics over many years.
All Supreme Court opinions since the 1920s have recently been indexed.
The Citizen Portal AI will soon be able to draw from these opinions to explain why many things are done the way they are done in the U. S.
We (in the U.S.) live under a constitutional framework, both with a federal and state constitutions.
We also have state, country and city laws.
When AI fully understands all of these laws, as well as local policies that affect our lives for good or for ill, citizens and elected officials alike will have more opportunities than ever before to support good government and reduce the harmful effects of bad government policies.
A former president once said “It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Do ever wonder how many bad rules, policies, or regulations there are that limit our freedoms, dampen our economic engine, or backfire in other ways, even though people who supported them may have had good intentions?
So many ideas have unanticipated negative consequences.
Perhaps with the help of AI, more of us can have a clearer picture of policies that work to improve our lives and policies that don’t.