Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Everyone agrees artificial intelligence is powerful technology. That's why agencies across the government are looking at it to speed things up and improve mission delivery. But AI can be misused. Just look at the super-surveillance society that is communist China.

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. The Defense Department's data strategy released just a few weeks ago says improving data management will help it fight and win wars. It says artificial intelligence will become an important component of data-fueled digital modernization. For an assessment, the CEO of data analysis company Govini, Tara Murphy Dougherty joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Insight by BOX: Federal News Network showcases several examples of agencies and industry partnering to create and evolve the future of work in this exclusive ebook.

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. The irony of artificial intelligence is how much human brainpower is required to build it. For three years, our next guest had been on loan from the University of Massachusetts, to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. There's she headed up several DARPA artificial intelligence projects. Now she's been awarded a high honor, the Meritorious Public Service Medal.

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Less repetitive work for the federal workforce sounds like an easy sell, but agencies still have a long road ahead of them when it comes to getting robotic process automation off the ground. Agencies took a major step forward on Tuesday, however, when the governmentwide RPA Community of Practice held its first industry day to gather feedback from vendors and government partners. Agencies who have already taken the plunge on RPA have seen positive results. The IRS, for example, expects to save more than 18,000 work hours through pilots launched in its procurement office, and faced with a growing workload at the end of each fiscal year, the IRS is looking at RPA tools to help with the heavy lifting.

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. The National Science Foundation is looking to foster a new convergence of artificial intelligence and wireless spectrum. It's about to host a workshop on that very topic. With what it's all about and some of the goals, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, deputy division director for the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations at NSF, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. The National Science Foundation is looking to foster a new convergence of artificial intelligence and wireless spectrum. It's about to host a workshop on that very topic. With what it's all about and some of the goals, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, deputy division director for the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations at NSF, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Agencies have gotten buy-in from their employees when it comes to automating rote tasks liked data entry. But it's a tougher sell to those employees -- and the public -- to trust artificial intelligence tools for data-driven decision-making. Some agencies, including the General Services Administration, IRS and Defense Logistics Agency expect to save tens of thousands of work hours through robotic process automation-powered bots for back-office functions. There's also room for automation grow, according to research from the Partnership for Public Service and IBM's Center for the Business of Government.

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. In the last Cold War, nations tried to see who could make the biggest nuclear bomb. In the current international rivalry, the race is aimed at something you can't see. In fact, China is spending big on AI as one component in its strategy for building a force-projecting military. Chris Taylor, CEO of the data and analytics firm Govini, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more about China's mission.