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Will the health institutions responsible for evidence generation adapt enough to shape AI integration in policymaking?
A high school journalist reflects on who is shaping the public conversation about AI. While headlines focus on risk and disruption, everyday uses of AI are already helping families access benefits, students learn, and cities deliver services. The gap, Amedeo Bettauer argues, is in between those whose experiences count in defining the debate and those in power who seek out diverse experiences.
A high school journalist reflects on who is shaping the public conversation about AI. While headlines focus on risk and disruption, everyday uses of AI are already helping families access benefits, students learn, and cities deliver services. The gap, Amedeo Bettauer argues, is in between those whose experiences count in defining the debate and those in power who seek out diverse experiences.
Dane Gambrell interviews Reeve Bull on how Virginia used AI to analyze hundreds of thousands of regulatory requirements, cutting 35.7% of them and saving an estimated $1.4 billion annually, but only after years of human groundwork. Wietse Van Ransbeeck shows how AI is making large-scale listening usable, helping governments process tens of thousands of public inputs by matching participation to the policy cycle. And Basque MP Xabier Barandiaran describes how the Basque Country is embedding participation directly into law, making collaboration traceable and enforceable, not optional. Elsewhere, a congressional staffer builds his own AI tools in the absence of institutional support, and the FDA pilots real-time monitoring of clinical trials. This and more in this week's News that Caught Our Eye
Dane Gambrell interviews Reeve Bull on how Virginia used AI to analyze hundreds of thousands of regulatory requirements, cutting 35.7% of them and saving an estimated $1.4 billion annually, but only after years of human groundwork. Wietse Van Ransbeeck shows how AI is making large-scale listening usable, helping governments process tens of thousands of public inputs by matching participation to the policy cycle. And Basque MP Xabier Barandiaran describes how the Basque Country is embedding participation directly into law, making collaboration traceable and enforceable, not optional. Elsewhere, a congressional staffer builds his own AI tools in the absence of institutional support, and the FDA pilots real-time monitoring of clinical trials. This and more in this week's News that Caught Our Eye
As the Basque Government moves to pass a new Transparency Law this May, it is redefining what transparency means. No longer just about access to information, the law embeds collaborative governance into its core, requiring that decision-making processes be open, traceable, and shaped with others. This piece explores what it looks like to turn participation from a principle into a legal obligation, and what it takes to make participation a structured, accountable part of how policy is made.
As the Basque Government moves to pass a new Transparency Law this May, it is redefining what transparency means. No longer just about access to information, the law embeds collaborative governance into its core, requiring that decision-making processes be open, traceable, and shaped with others. This piece explores what it looks like to turn participation from a principle into a legal obligation, and what it takes to make participation a structured, accountable part of how policy is made.
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