New York City has released a 116-page strategic vision for how it plans to benefit from artificial intelligence as a community, with an emphasis on doing so in ethical and responsible ways. The plan, dubbed The New York City Artificial Intelligence Strategy, was released yesterday by the NYC Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer. This plan is perhaps unprecedented in many ways, marking the most extensive and proactive action taken toward one of the world's fast-evolving technologies by a U.S. city government. "AI will touch virtually every area of life in the years ahead," said John Paul Farmer, NYC's chief technology officer, during a conversation with Government Technology. While most prominently the report features the city's planned approach toward supporting AI, it also serves in part as a primer on the basics of how AI works.