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Monona leaders urge caution on municipal AI use; departments restrict patient‑care AI
Summary
IT and public‑safety leaders told council the city has no broad AI subscriptions and will proceed cautiously; fire and police chiefs said some vendor AI features (email scanning, translation, transcription) are used but narrative generation for patient records is disabled pending policy work.
City IT and public‑safety staff asked the Committee of the Whole on Thursday to limit municipal AI adoption until policies and technical safeguards are in place.
Leah, Monona's IT director, said the city has not broadly licensed AI tools and cautioned against placing city data into publicly available AI services: "we really don't want departments to be putting in city information into publicly available software." Leah recommended policy work and…
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