The Berkeley Rule<\/a>,\u201d is a set of 10 guidelines authored by District 3 Councilmember Ben Bartlett that lay out the purposes that AI should fulfill within the city. The second item, authored by District 5 Councilmember Shoshana O\u2019Keefe, included principles that the council would like the city\u2019s AI policy to follow.<\/p>\n\u201cThe need to (create \u2018The Berkeley Rule\u2019) came from conversations with the city manager where he asked me to help come up with something to help him think about how to use AI, because it\u2019s being used in a scattershot fashion,\u201d Bartlett said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to create administrative regulations right around it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 10 guidelines that \u201cThe Berkeley Rule\u201d outlines are: put residents first, modernize city services, empower the community, ensure transparency and accountability, standardize operations, certify ethical use, protect and prepare our workforce, defend civil liberties, social advancement and accessibility, and catalyze civic wealth.<\/p>\n
The framework, which Bartlett has been working on for about a year, will guide how staff will regulate and incorporate AI systems into the city government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe administrative regulations are going to tell the city how (to use AI), but \u2018The Berkeley Rule\u2019 tells us why,\u201d Bartlett said. \u201cThis has got to be a human-centered thing that really helps us fulfill the moral evolution of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n
While there has not been a formal policy that dictates how city staff should use AI, the second item is intended to inform the city manager of seven key principles to take into consideration when developing the policy.<\/p>\n
The item complements \u201cThe Berkeley Rule,\u201d according to District 4 Councilmember Igor Tregub, who co-authored \u201cThe Berkeley Rule\u201d and co-sponsored the second item.<\/p>\n
Policies include creating safeguards against AI systems introducing bias, protecting data privacy and ensuring cybersecurity compliance, as well as maintaining human oversight and accountability. In addition, the resolution also seeks to explore opportunities to integrate AI in operations management and foster cross-departmental collaboration of AI knowledge.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth items were crafted in close coordination with the city manager, and city staff is in the process of developing its own guidelines for the use of AI,\u201d Tregub said. \u201c(The item) directs (the city manager) in the writing of such a policy to keep certain principles in mind, which are the seven principles that you see in the item.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berkeley City Council passed two resolutions that provide a framework for AI usage by the city during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[35029,7981,14328,143,145,144,7987,103835],"class_list":["post-228544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ben-bartlett","tag-berkeley-city-council","tag-igor-tregub","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-shoshana-okeefe","tag-the-berkeley-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}