How public sector AI is going from hype to reality Apolitical

This opinion article was written by Rebecca Santos, OPSI Advisor with Kévin Kok Héang, OPSI Consultant. For more like this, see our digital government newsfeed. That eerily meticulous, methodical, and measured voice. For decades, HAL 9000, the sentient computer and antagonist extraordinaire in Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey, or the gun-wielding, cyborg assassin the Terminator, have become pop culture's shorthand for Artificial Intelligence (AI), in all its potential and potential malfeasance. Perhaps because these kinds of depictions of AI are so dominant, this technology maintains an aura of intrigue.