Indiana chief privacy officer briefs Indianapolis AI commission on state AI governance and sandboxes

Ted Cotterill, chief privacy officer for the state of Indiana and general counsel for the Management Performance Hub, told the Artificial Intelligence Commission of Indianapolis Marion County that the state has built a formal review process and secure infrastructure to enable government use of artificial intelligence while managing risk.

Cotterill said the state routes AI proposals through an "AI review team" with legal, privacy, data science and governance representatives and that higher‑risk deployments undergo a NIST assessment. He said, "we're creating a fast lane for low and moderate risk proposals" and that the state is standing up multi‑cloud sandboxes with AWS Bedrock, Azure Foundry and Google Vertex to give agencies a trusted environment for testing.

The briefing laid out why the state had centralized data and privacy roles and how that work informs AI oversight. Cotterill described the…