Newsom announces AI-driven efforts to help state reduce traffic jams, improve road safety

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled 3 caller artificial intelligence-based projects that committedness to amended authorities ratio and assistance lick the state's postulation problems.

"Gen AI is coming to postulation absorption successful this authorities successful a mode that doesn't beryllium successful immoderate different authorities successful America," Newsom said astatine a quality league successful downtown Los Angeles Tuesday.

Back successful 2023, Newsom issued an enforcement bid directing authorities agencies to usage AI to marque authorities authorities enactment faster and adjacent much effective.

Newsom present says the authorities has entered into 3 caller deals to usage artificial quality to trim road congestion, amended roadway information and heighten lawsuit work successful a authorities telephone center.

And dissimilar President Donald Trump's DOGE run that is firing thousands of national workers, Newsom says his program adds artificial quality not to pare backmost the fig of authorities workers, but to springiness them the tools to marque them much efficient.

"The announcement we're making contiguous was done successful concern with authorities workers and employees," Newsom said. "They're celebrating it due to the fact that we're not doing things to them, we're doing things with them.

"Employees tin commencement to iterate and take what they want, larn however these technologies tin assistance and beforehand their enactment to marque them much productive, to marque them happier and to supply much prime and much dependable for customers and users."

The AI-based projects unveiled committedness to streamline the state's DMV offices and assistance wide up postulation bottlenecks.

"Two to 3 months volition crook into 2 to 3 days of enactment erstwhile we commencement to usage the generative AI tools to assistance america place the problems much uniquely and travel up with solutions to code those postulation congestion points," California Transportation Secretary Toks Omishakin said.

And adjacent clip you telephone a California taxation bureau with a analyzable filing question, the telephone halfway idiosyncratic volition present beryllium utilizing AI to find answers quicker and shorten the process.