{"id":947747,"date":"2025-07-18T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947747"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:25:32","slug":"ai-is-the-new-intern-at-san-joses-city-hall-mayor-matt-mahan-uses-chatgpt-to-draft-speeches-and-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/ai-is-the-new-intern-at-san-joses-city-hall-mayor-matt-mahan-uses-chatgpt-to-draft-speeches-and-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is the new intern at San Jose\u2019s City Hall: Mayor Matt Mahan uses ChatGPT to draft speeches and budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of San Jose is setting a precedent in the public sector&#8217;s adoption of artificial intelligence, with Mayor Matt Mahan openly integrating AI tools like ChatGPT into day-to-day governance and policy work.<\/p>\n<p>From drafting speeches for ribbon-cutting ceremonies to helping shape the city\u2019s $5.6 billion annual budget, Mahan and his team have embraced generative AI as a time-saving instrument that reduces administrative burden. \u201cElected officials do a tremendous amount of public speaking,\u201d said Mahan. \u201cYou can knock out these tasks at a similar or better level of quality in a lot less time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of San Jose is setting a precedent in the public sector&#8217;s adoption of artificial intelligence, with Mayor Matt Mahan openly integrating AI tools like ChatGPT into day-to-day governance and policy work. From drafting speeches for ribbon-cutting ceremonies to helping shape the city\u2019s $5.6 billion annual budget, Mahan and his team have embraced generative AI as a time-saving instrument that reduces administrative burden. \u201cElected officials do a tremendous amount of public speaking,\u201d said Mahan. \u201cYou can knock out these tasks at a similar or better level of quality in a lot less time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}