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Council advances city–Cornell AI records partnership for attorney review, limits set on data use
Summary
Council authorized DICE to pursue a partnership with Cornell to digitize and index legislative records (2009–present) and approved safeguards—records limited to public FOIL material, no training of commercial models without consent—and referred the resolution to the city attorney for final language; the motion passed unanimously.
The Ithaca Common Council voted April 22 to advance a proposed partnership between the city's Department of Information and Community Engagement (DICE) and the Cornell Center for AI Innovation to digitize, index and enable AI-assisted search of city legislative records from 2009 to the present, subject to legal review.
Councilmember Keel read the resolution's limits: the project would…
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