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Will County committee begins drafting countywide AI policy, members insist on human oversight
Summary
The Will County Capital Improvements Committee spent most of its Jan. meeting compiling priorities for a county AI policy: keep human oversight, inventory existing tools, require disclosures when AI is used and pilot closed-source systems with human review before adoption.
The Will County Capital Improvements Committee opened a multi-department conversation on a countywide artificial intelligence policy at its meeting that began at 10:04 a.m., focusing on safeguards for data privacy, human oversight and operational limits.
Chair opened the agenda item with documents from the Illinois State Association of Counties and asked the group to produce a short list of policy bullet points the committee can refine with IT at next month’s meeting. “Keep the Human Factor,” the Chair said, as a guiding principle the committee should include.
Several members pressed for concrete limits. Member Rabbit warned against replacing county employees with automation, saying it would be “dangerous…
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