The federal government is looking to capitalize on the advances made in artificial intelligence as technology becomes more commonplace in the commercial sector, said the executive editor of NextGov, a government technology news website. It comes down to pretty much automating processes and using A.I. for things like chatbots," said Camille Tuutti. Artificial intelligence's contemporary use in government is as basic as it sounds: chatbots simply read questions from users and output relevant answers. "I think that's going to change rapidly over the next years," Tuutti told What's Working in Washington. "What we're going to see is a little bit more advancement within the [Department of Defense] or intelligence community when it comes to artificial intelligence." "It's not going to be Skynet," Tuutti said, referring to the fictional neural net-based conscious group mind and artificial general intelligence system featured in the Terminator movies. Artificial intelligence can execute monotonous jobs such as data entry. "I think any new, emerging technology is going to be considered a little bit scary," said Tuutti. Cloud computing, for example, was a tough sell when it first became viable for businesses. "People were very afraid to implement it at first, or even embrace it.