Will New Jersey Be the First State to Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer?

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) are the future of state IT, according to New Jersey Chief Technology Officer Dave Weinstein. While working in the executive branch to help modernize and secure critical systems, Weinstein admits that the state is generally still in a "fact-finding, data-gathering mode." While some argue that AI and machine learning still fall into the "exciting, but how can we use it?" "We need to start thinking about [automation] not just as at a technical level, but from a strategic perspective. How are we going to embrace this or scale it across the enterprise?" he said.