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New York City is staring down a $7.25 billion budget gap this coming fiscal year — and the savings trumpeted by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, including $100 million over two years in school-contract savings he bragged about last week, are barely a drop in the bucket.
Artificial intelligence offers a once-in-a-generation chance to boost government productivity, lowering the city’s costs.
Yet an obscure but significant state law known as the LOADinG Act threatens that opportunity.
The statute began in 2023 as an AI-transparency bill for state agencies, with the stated purpose of establishing accountability and transparency for AI use in government decision-making — a reasonable and even worthwhile goal.
Three years and three rounds of amendments later, however, the LOADinG Act has evolved from a law to protect the public to one that protects government employees.
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Sean Speer is a Technical Writer at the Manhattan Institute and former adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.