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The Philadelphia City Council Committee on Technology and Information Services held a public hearing on Resolution 240759 to explore the current status of artificial intelligence (AI) and how the City can prepare for its impacts across public, private and nonprofit sectors. City officials described an existing inventory of machine‑learning and generative tools, a Project Health Check procurement review, and plans to publish plain‑language staff guidelines and stand up a cross‑departmental AI governance committee in late winter/early spring. Experts, industry representatives and community groups testified about both potential efficiencies (health care use cases, productivity tools) and substantial risks (bias in decision systems, surveillance, environmental costs, vendor lock‑in), and many speakers called for stronger procurement conditions, transparency, community participation and limits on high‑risk uses.
