Renting the Brain, Owning the Mind
Note: This is the third article in a series about the need for local governments to control how AI…
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AI Didn’t Create the Knowledge Layer. It Just Turned the Lights On.
NOTE: This is the second article in this series. Artificial intelligence did not introduce a new problem to local…
The Hidden Infrastructure: Why Local Governments Must Claim Sovereignty Over the AI Knowledge Layer
Artificial intelligence is entering local government the way most consequential things do: politely, without knocking, and claiming it will…
The Efficiency Trap: Why AI Success Breaks the Local Government Model
Note: This is the third article in this series. For more context, it might help to read the first…
When AI Left the Whiteboard and Went to Work
Author’s Note: This is the second article in a short series documenting my journey from just being “The GIS…
When GIS Wasn’t Really GIS
The Unexpected Beginning of a Transformation When I took over the GIS Department for St. Joseph County, MI, in…
My GIS Pivot: Why We Are Rethinking the Role of the Map in the Age of AI
Notes from the messy middle of local government modernization. For most of my 30+ year career, I assumed GIS…
The AI Illusion: What the GovAI Coalition Summit Really Revealed About Government Tech
The GovAI Coalition Summit wrapped a couple of weeks ago. Like many of you living in the quiet limbo…
AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Local Government
Why the Plumbing Matters More Than the Chatbot: The Diagnosis Introduction: The Efficiency Gap Local governments across the country…