Hanif questions Hidalgo on reviving COPIC for AI oversight

Councilmember Honey, if you had a question.

I had a question for Noelle.

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Could you just speak a little bit more about what a fully functioning COPIC

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could do today that other city agents, no other city entity is currently doing.

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Yeah, so thank you for asking that question.

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Since its inception, COPIC, as the Commission of Public Information and Communications, has the unique power that brings the council, the executive, public advocate, as well as public

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designees to oversee communications, terrestrial TV, radio, and the web.

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COPIC's first responsibility was to create the very first data dictionary that the city has ever seen.

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We now have the city's open data law.

COPIC has the unique capability existing in the city charter to do the oversight of websites and to help define how the public uses those websites.

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And that provides a very unique capability inside of the charter that isn't being exercised.

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And so what I would love to see is COPIC have a series of hearings explicitly focused on public information.

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AI is public information.

It is how these models have used public information to essentially turn around and distill public information.

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And you actually heard the deputy commissioner say that, that they can't find somebody inside of New York City to say that.

So a revamped COPIC with resources to actually host hearings and to continue this existing conversation can help bring that power.

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And COPIC's advice when it writes a report then comes to council and essentially to introduce new pieces of legislation, which you then, as the speaker, have other pieces of power to execute.

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I'll leave that to the lawyers.

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Thank you all so much and thank you to this panel.

We really appreciate your testimony and look forward to reading the full extent of your testimony.

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