How CDOs can promote machine learning in government

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential for governments, especially machine learning technology, which can help discover patterns and anomalies and make predictions. There are five vectors of progress that can make it easier, faster, and cheaper to deploy machine learning and bring the technology into the mainstream in the public sector. As the barriers continue to fall, chief data officers (CDOs) have increasing opportunities to begin exploring applications of this transformative technology. Machine learning is one of the most powerful and versatile information technologies available today.1 But most organizations, even in the private sector, have not begun to use its potential. One recent survey of 3,100 executives from small, medium, and large companies across 17 countries found that fewer than 10 percent of companies were investing in machine learning.2