Molillo on 2029 technology rebuild plans

what we're truly doing to prepare for 2029, which is making significant investments in essentially replacing and rebuilding all of our underlying technology within the next two years.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

So this will include streamlining and improving the front-end experience for candidates and campaigns.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

That becomes very important in how it intersects with this bill, because then we will look at how we can accept AI disclosure and providence data as part of that system.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

But we are also right now taking a look before we even begin to build the back-end technology that powers our entire audit process.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

We are taking a look right now at are there ways we can simplify and streamline our existing processes from a high level without sacrificing rigor, accuracy, or the things that we know the public relies on the campaign finance board to provide.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

The reason I think that's important is because the very same people who are doing that work will also need to figure out how to implement this legislation.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

So just as a little bit of background between now and the end of this year.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

We are working very intensively between my division, with audit leadership, and with our legal team

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

to take a look at, okay, if we want to administer this program in a much more effective way for 2029, if we want to completely rebuild systems and move away from our legacy technology, how do we do that?

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

We redesigned the process from the beginning to improve it for campaigns, for candidates, and for our own staff and for the public at large.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

And so I want to be realistic about that when we're looking at an implementation timeline of this bill,

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

because our team working on that will also be working on what do we need to do to really stand this up, both from a rulemaking perspective, from a process perspective, and from an expertise-building perspective in building our technology.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate the response.

We've been joined by Councilmember Carr here and Councilmember Dinowitz on Zoom and now Councilmember Thomas Henry for questions.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.