Public technology and shared capability

Selected direction.

Keep meaningful human authority over consequential AI decisions

Consequential decisions need human judgment and a route to challenge errors.

The proposal. Keep accountable human judgment and appeal in decisions affecting rights. Detailed AI institutions remain proposals rather than a completed government program.

Implementation. Specify human review, explanations, correction, appeal, independent testing, privacy, retention, audits, and consequences for misuse. AI suspicion must not substitute for lawful evidence.

Working safeguards. A public register of consequential AI could identify its purpose, operator, supplier, data, error rates, costs, incidents and renewal conditions. Government data should not become unrelated model-training material without authorization. These detailed safeguards remain working proposals.

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Selected direction.

Provide shared public technical infrastructure and expertise

Small governments need expertise without surrendering policymaking.

Provide useful scientific knowledge and optional shared expertise for governments that cannot efficiently build every capability themselves. Laboratories, engineering, cybersecurity, procurement, training and other technical services can support local delivery without reclaiming local policy powers.

A State Extension and Innovation Service and Public AI Commons are institutional options. Funding, service terms, accountability and legal powers remain to be designed. Working safeguards include data portability, supplier independence, audit access and assigning attributable data-center infrastructure costs to operators rather than household bills.

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Working proposal. This is a working proposal, not an adopted policy.

Develop civic intelligence and resilience monitoring

Earlier understanding of shared-system risks can inform preparedness.

A State Civic Intelligence and Resilience Service could monitor food, water, energy, housing, transportation, public health, workforce needs, and supply chains; identify risks; test scenarios; and publish assumptions and uncertainty.

Institutions, data access, privacy, funding and responsibility for acting on forecasts remain to be designed.

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Working proposal. This is a working proposal, not an adopted policy.

Create a public outcomes observatory

Comparable outcomes can help residents evaluate public services.

A Public Outcomes Observatory could compare cost of living, housing availability, learning outcomes, economic activity, public safety, infrastructure, environmental quality, health, fiscal condition, processing times, and citizen satisfaction. Measurement should inform citizens without ideological ratings or personal social scoring.

Definitions, comparability, uncertainty, independent review and corrections require design before comparisons are treated as reliable.

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Working proposal. This is a working proposal, not an adopted policy.

Offer a source-citing civic assistant

Government information should be easier to navigate without giving an assistant sovereign powers.

An optional civic assistant could help individuals understand laws, taxes, budgets, benefits, permits, education and healthcare options, business requirements, appeals, and public participation. It should cite sources, acknowledge uncertainty, and provide access to a human. It would have no independent authority to punish, deny, investigate, or classify a person.

This optional service remains a working proposal, with operating arrangements, privacy, testing and funding unresolved.

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Working proposal. This is a working proposal, not an adopted policy.

Coordinate waste recovery and materials reuse

Shared recovery can connect materials with useful treatment and reuse.

How it would work. States could coordinate recycling, composting, hazardous waste, wastewater recovery, and reusable materials.

Implementation. Map material flows and test recovery technologies and shared facilities. Evaluate results without requiring each community to adopt an identical solution.

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Working proposal. This is a working proposal, not an adopted policy.

Offer skills and worker-transition support

People need practical ways to adapt as tools and work change.

How it would work. Skills and transition support could include training, apprenticeships, credentials, and access to tools.

Implementation. Define eligibility, providers, costs and outcomes before selecting programs. Training proposals do not establish a particular benefit or mandatory work test.

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Working proposal. This is a working proposal, not an adopted policy.

Make records and earned benefits portable between communities

Moving should not require rebuilding an administrative life.

Implementation. Maintain secure portability of records and earned benefits between communities.

Implementation. Preserve secure continuity for identity, education, credentials, pensions, courts, health, business, vehicle and property records when people move. Specify authorization, access and compatible systems.

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Working proposal. This is a working proposal, not an adopted policy.

Decide how verified automation gains benefit the public

Automation gains must be verified before promises are made about who benefits.

Measure net savings and productivity from public automation. Previously discussed uses include lower taxes or fees, debt reduction, better services, reserves, training, shorter public-sector workweeks without reduced service, and local productivity dividends. No fixed allocation or universal dividend has been adopted. These uses must be reconciled with individual direction of contributions and residual balances.

Read this alongside The Framework and the Working Guide.