The order outlines the values and principles by which commonwealth employees will utilize generative AI technologies, engage Pennsylvania’s leading AI innovation and research sector to understand potential impacts and opportunities of generative AI on the commonwealth’s workforce and digital service delivery, and establish a Generative AI Governing Board to guide commonwealth policy, use and deployment.
The 10 core values that the executive branch will use to govern the use of generative AI in Pennsylvania, are: accuracy, adaptability, employee empowerment, equity and fairness, innovation, mission alignment, privacy, proportionality, safety and security, and transparency.
“(Gov. Shapiro’s) vision recognizes the profound urgency that is defining this moment for Pennsylvania and for our nation,” said Jahanian. “The accelerating pace of innovation and technological advances is profoundly reshaping our society, in particular, generative AI — and more broadly speaking, artificial intelligence — is rapidly transforming nearly every sector of our economy including transportation, manufacturing, health care, agriculture, energy and far beyond that … Here at CMU — the birthplace of artificial intelligence — we have a remarkable legacy of developing and using AI for good. Our differentiator is the way our scholars, our scientists, humanists, artists, technologists and policymakers team up to innovate and work together to enhance the human condition through science and technology.”
Carnegie Mellon University’s Block Center for Technology and Society(opens in new window), one of the nation’s leading research centers working to shape the impact of these technologies, will partner with the Shapiro administration to create opportunities for the commonwealth to leverage faculty expertise and receive advisory support for the Generative AI Governance Board, as well as foster additional research support and collaboration on generative AI usage.
