Three Questions on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Public Administration

By Gianluca Sgueo

Artificial intelligence is the first general-purpose technology conceived primarily to augment human intelligence. The integration of such technology into the civil service raises three questions that lack unambiguous answers. First, does government decision-making with generative artificial intelligence have radically distinctive features compared to decision-making without this technology? Second, how is administrative intelligence evolving as a result of its integration with generative artificial intelligence? Third, what kind of structural transformations does this technology bring about in public power?