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Philadelphia officials outline AI governance, say training and inventory are coming this summer

Committee of the Whole, Philadelphia City Council · March 31, 2026
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Summary

City officials told council the Office of Innovation and Technology has published an internal AI policy (March 24), will roll out employee training April 1, and has an inventory of roughly 35–36 AI tools; a fuller public action plan and inventory will be released over the summer.

Melissa Scott, the city’s chief information officer, told the Committee of the Whole that the Office of Innovation and Technology has already published an internal AI policy and will begin employee training on April 1 as part of a broader governance framework.

“In this is introducing them to how to utilize these tools… It’s called a prompt, and then it will produce back to you information that would help you with your original prompt,” Scott said, explaining the purpose of large language models and stressing that staff will be taught not to upload city data to external…

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