San Francisco is using artificial intelligence to fight against slow and inefficient government processes and excessive reporting rules. Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leading this effort. The city hopes to make its operations much smoother by removing or changing many of its current reporting rules. This big project aims to completely remove about 140 reporting requirements, which is more than a third of the nearly 500 requirements that can be changed through city laws.
The main reason for this effort is the understanding that too much paperwork takes away valuable time and resources, making it harder for the city to focus on important services for its residents. The huge amount of reports being created is seen as a major obstacle to good government, similar to problems seen at the national level. Peskin compared it to the millions of pages of paperwork Congress produces each year, calling it a “black hole” that pulls attention away from critical work.
