JUST IN: Gov. Newsom Announces New Use Of AI By California State To Improve Government Efficiency

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TLDRThe discussion highlights California's prominent role in innovation and governance, emphasizing the state's leadership in technology and public-private partnerships. Key speakers, including the Governor and representatives from organizations like the Carnegie Endowment, discuss the importance of generative AI in enhancing government efficiency and citizen engagement. They introduce the engaged.ca.gov platform, aimed at fostering deliberative democracy and meaningful citizen participation in governance. The conversation also touches on successful initiatives in the DMV and transportation sectors, showcasing California's commitment to improving public services and addressing complex societal challenges through collaboration and technology.

Takeaways

  • 🌟 California leads in venture capital, accounting for 50% of the U.S. total.
  • 💡 The state is home to half of the world's largest companies, driving innovation.
  • 🤝 Public-private partnerships are crucial for fostering creativity and technology.
  • 🧠 Generative AI is transforming government efficiency and citizen engagement.
  • 📊 The engaged.ca.gov platform aims to enhance democratic participation.
  • 🚦 Transportation initiatives focus on traffic management and safety for vulnerable users.
  • 📉 DMV services have improved significantly, reducing wait times and increasing online transactions.
  • 🌍 California's governance model is inspired by Taiwan's digital participation efforts.
  • 🔍 The Carnegie Endowment partners with California to improve governance and citizen involvement.
  • 🤔 Engaging citizens in meaningful conversations is key to effective governance.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker welcomes the Governor and highlights California's leadership in innovation and technology, emphasizing the importance of public-private partnerships in fostering creativity and solving global challenges.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Tino Quayar from the Carnegie Endowment discusses the organization's mission to improve governance and democracy, focusing on citizen engagement and meaningful conversations to address complex issues in California.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Audrey Tang, Taiwan's cyber ambassador, shares Taiwan's success in using digital participation to enhance government efficiency and citizen engagement, highlighting the role of generative AI in summarizing public input and fostering pro-social media.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Transportation Secretary Tesl Omashakin outlines California's efforts to improve government efficiency and effectiveness, particularly in transportation, and discusses the use of generative AI to address traffic management and safety for vulnerable users.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Nick Maduros, Secretary of Government Operations, emphasizes the state's commitment to improving services through technology, detailing the use of generative AI in call centers to enhance taxpayer assistance and streamline operations.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Governor Gavin Newsom expresses gratitude for the collaboration with various partners and highlights California's leadership in generative AI, emphasizing the importance of engaging citizens in the decision-making process and improving government efficiency.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    The Governor discusses the challenges of communicating government initiatives and the need for a more engaged and effective government, emphasizing the importance of collaboration with state workers and the public.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:44:09

    The conversation concludes with a focus on the importance of building consensus and addressing complex issues through innovative approaches, with a commitment to transparency and accountability in government.

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  • What is the significance of California in the venture capital landscape?

    California accounts for 50% of all venture capital in the United States.

  • How does California lead in innovation?

    California is home to half of the world's 20 largest companies and excels in advanced technology, biotech, and renewables.

  • What role does generative AI play in California's governance?

    Generative AI is being used to improve government efficiency and citizen engagement in decision-making processes.

  • What is the engaged.ca.gov platform?

    It is a platform designed to facilitate citizen engagement and deliberative democracy in California.

  • How has Taiwan influenced California's approach to governance?

    Taiwan's model of using digital participation to enhance government efficiency has inspired California's initiatives.

  • What are the goals of the Carnegie Endowment's partnership with California?

    To improve governance and citizen engagement in addressing complex issues.

  • What improvements have been made in California's DMV services?

    The DMV has significantly reduced wait times and increased online transaction capabilities.

  • What is the focus of California's transportation initiatives?

    To enhance traffic management and address the safety of vulnerable users in the transportation system.

  • How does California plan to engage citizens in governance?

    By using generative AI to facilitate meaningful conversations and integrate citizen input into decision-making.

  • What is the expected outcome of the engaged California initiative?

    To build consensus among citizens on important issues and improve government responsiveness.

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Gulir Otomatis:
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    All right. Good morning, Governor. Thank
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    you for being here uh visiting our
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    offices here at Accenture. And thank you
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    guests. It's really an honor and a
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    privilege to have you here in downtown
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    Los Angeles. I'll be brief. I just want
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    to start by saying 50% of all venture
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    capital in the United States flows
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    through California. Half of the world's
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    20 largest
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    companies, California. There's a reason
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    for that. From advanced technology to
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    biotech to renewables, California leads
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    the world. And innovative companies want
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    to be
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    here. It's not accidental that
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    innovation has flourished here.
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    partnerships between the public and
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    private sector are commonplace here and
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    there's a reason for that and it's not
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    because it can be 65 degrees here uh for
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    most of the year. It requires the
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    conditions for that to happen and
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    governor I want to thank you for your
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    unrelenting focus to ensure
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    that technology like AI things that the
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    world needs to solve the big problems
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    that you're leading the way and that
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    that's happening right here in
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    California as it should.
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    And thank you for allowing companies
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    like Accenture to continue working with
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    the state to tackle those hard problems
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    and have an enduring
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    impact. I travel around the world and I
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    work with governments of all different
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    types that want to learn more and adopt
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    digital technologies. They want to be
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    innovative. And I start with California.
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    And that's not because I call California
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    my home. It's because there is something
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    special here in California. And that is
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    that people want to come here to be
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    creative. Companies want to come here to
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    be creative to build the things that
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    solve the big problems. And California
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    is a world leader in that. We turn the
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    bold ideas into that big longlasting
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    impact. And so again, it's my pleasure
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    to be here and I will turn it over to uh
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    Tino Quayar who is the president of the
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    Carne Endowment for International Peace.
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    Thank you very much.
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    Good morning and thank you Mark. You
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    know 115 years ago my organization was
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    founded by Andrew Carnegie with one
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    singular purpose. After he'd spent all
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    this time building libraries around the
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    world he wanted to make an investment in
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    making peace and cooperation across
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    countries more effective. And he came to
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    understand that that involved the
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    improvement of governance. How it is
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    that democracies worked as well. Today
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    our organization works in multiple
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    countries but with one singular purpose.
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    how to make the world a little bit more
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    effective at cooperating and its
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    governance more effective at responding
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    to the needs of people. Here in
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    California, we have an enormous
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    opportunity and my organization Carnegie
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    has been pleased to partner with the
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    state of California to take the
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    conversation about democracy to the next
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    level. We wanted to not only ask how do
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    you protect democracy? How do you make
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    it work effectively, but also what is
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    the frontier? How do you engage citizens
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    in a different way on the hard problems
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    that government is facing? Like
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    rebuilding Los Angeles in a way that is
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    effective and responsive to the needs of
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    all Angelinos. What can we learn from
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    this terrible disaster that has played
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    out here? The answer to that question is
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    found, interestingly enough, sometimes
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    in the hearts and the minds of people
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    all over the state of California. And
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    the question that we've been asking
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    ourselves as we help design a program
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    for the state of California to scale up
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    is how do you select people to have
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    meaningful conversations? Not just the
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    quick sound bite, not just the quick
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    response to a pollster, but the depth
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    that you get when you're having an
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    honest conversation, listening to
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    disisconfirming ideas, asking how to
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    leverage your own wisdom and insight.
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    How do you then take those conversations
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    and make them actual input into the
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    decisions of elected representatives and
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    leaders and executive branch officials,
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    integrate that with expert scientific
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    knowledge? And then how do you use that
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    experience to make sure the citizens who
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    participate learn something and go back
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    to their communities and spread that
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    knowledge as they go? Now, as I've seen
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    this project scale up and seen the
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    interest from the governor and his team,
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    I've been struck by three things that
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    really make this meaningful. The first
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    is anybody who cares about democracy
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    should know that democracy has a crisis
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    of delivering. Sometimes it's not enough
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    to live in a democracy. We have to ask
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    how can it be more responsive more
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    quickly to the needs of people to build
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    things and to have them respond to their
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    needs. Second, can we learn from the
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    technology around us and not make this
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    all about technology, but use
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    technological tools to improve
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    deliberation? And last, can we make it
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    so that the people who participate in
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    these dialogues don't just feel good
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    about it, but get tangible, clear
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    indications that their input and their
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    ideas are being acted on by their
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    representatives. So, for all those
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    reasons, it's been a real privilege to
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    have my organization, the Carnegie
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    Endowment, be a part of this from day
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    one. And now, I'd like to introduce
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    somebody who's done terrific work
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    showcasing how this can work around the
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    world, and that is Audrey Tang, who is
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    Taiwan's cyber ambassador at large.
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    Welcome, Audrey.
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    Uh, thank you. Um, I'm Audrey Tong,
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    Taiwan's first digital minister and now
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    cyber ambassador. 10 years ago, uh, in
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    2015 in Taiwan, uh, we entered the
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    cabinet with this very simple idea that
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    efficiency and engagement do not have to
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    be a trade-off. Through participation,
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    we can actually make government much
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    more efficient. And in the short span of
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    the first six years uh since I went into
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    the cabinet as a full minister in charge
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    of digital participation uh the approval
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    rate uh increased from 9% to over 70%.
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    We shortened the tax filing from ours uh
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    to minutes. Uh and we overcame the
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    pandemic without a single day of
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    citywide lockdown. And all this is not
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    my idea or really anyone's idea but
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    rather um ideas from the Taiwanese
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    population. And I'm really really happy
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    uh to see that over the past two years
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    the team here in California took that
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    idea and amplified it with generative AI
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    because Gen AI for the first time can
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    accurately summarize people's common
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    ideas and discover the uncommon ground
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    desparization and for the first time
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    generative AI can help closing the loop
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    by going back to the actual statements
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    proposed by a citizen saying now the
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    government is doing this because of
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    these words you said and resonated with.
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    So I'm very happy uh to uh keep helping
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    the state of California and also
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    building what we call pro-social media,
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    not the antisocial corner of social
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    media, but social media that really give
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    the voice, choice, and a stake uh to
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    everyone involved. Thank you. And I'd
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    like to introduce the state uh
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    transportation secretary uh secretary
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    Omishakin.
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    [Applause]
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    Good morning everybody. Tesla shaken uh
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    transportation secretary part of
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    Governor Gavin Newsome's uh cabinet
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    team. So here to share a little bit of
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    the perspective from transportation on
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    this topic. We're here to today to talk
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    about uh not only the efficiency of
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    government uh but how government can
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    become more effective and also how
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    government can engage better. Two things
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    I want to briefly talk about. number one
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    what we've been doing in the past and
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    then the sort of renaissance the takeoff
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    that we've also seen on the last 18
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    months since Governor Nome signed an
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    executive order on generative AI first
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    of all some of the things we've been
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    doing in the past before this
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    responsibility I was the CALR uh
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    director and I know for a fact that
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    every major project that you start at
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    Calr takes anywhere from 12 to 14 years
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    to get from uh start to completion. From
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    start to completion, 12 to 14 years.
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    Meaning if a child is in kindergarten
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    today uh and we start a project today,
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    that child will be in college before
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    that project uh is done. Any major
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    project. So the governor uh challenged
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    us as a part of uh SP1 uh many years ago
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    to continue to identify ways to find
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    efficiencies in how we do our work. as a
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    part of SB1. Also, there was a $100
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    million efficiency savings requirement.
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    In that requirement, every single year,
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    we've exceeded that $100 million
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    requirement. Many years, doubling and in
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    some cases tripling the efficiencies
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    that we've uh and savings uh that we
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    found to get projects out uh to our uh
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    taxpayers um more quickly. So delivering
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    projects more efficiently and
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    effectively from Cal Trends has been a
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    priority. Number two, as far as some of
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    the things that we've done in the past,
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    the DMV has been a shining uh star, an
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    example. Uh Steve Gordon, the director
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    there, has really been focused on
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    identifying ways to deliver better
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    service to customers. Any customer that
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    walked into a DMV six years ago compared
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    to walking into a DMV today, they will
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    tell you it's a completely different
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    experience. those weight times
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    significantly shorter. Part of the
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    reason why is because we've moved so
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    many things into a digital platform. Six
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    years ago, there were only roughly a
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    half a dozen or a dozen actually a dozen
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    transactions that you could do online.
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    Only 12. Today, there are 50
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    transactions that you can start online
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    at the DMV and complete. Uh more than
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    40% of vehicle registrations also happen
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    online today. That's those are
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    significant jumps from five or six years
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    ago uh at the DMV. So, a lot of
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    advancement and a lot of improvement.
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    One more example from the DMV, we were
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    just talking about it with the governor
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    is the mobile driver's license. We now
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    have 1.4 million people in California
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    who have their driver's license in a
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    mobile format. 600,000 are with Google,
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    another 112,000
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    uh with Samsung, and then another
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    600,000 uh roughly with the DMV uh
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    wallet. So, a lot of advancements and
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    improvement and effectiveness in
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    delivering services both at Calr and at
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    the DMV. Now, specifically to the
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    exciting announcement uh from the
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    governor's signing of an uh an executive
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    order uh in September of 2023. by the
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    way, one of the first governors in the
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    country to do so. Uh we we're excited
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    from the transportation side to be a
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    part of uh launching California into
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    this from the government space. The two
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    projects that we're going to take on,
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    number one, traffic management is number
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    one. Number two, vulnerable users of the
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    transportation system. From a traffic
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    management standpoint, California has
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    more super commuters than any other
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    state uh in the country. More than
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    300,000 people in our state uh travel 90
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    minutes in one direction. So you're
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    talking about three hours a day, people
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    spending in traffic. So we want to use
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    generative AI to identify the
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    bottlenecks and solutions to be able to
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    address those bottlenecks along our
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    transportation system throughout the
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    state. Uh, and I can't think of a better
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    tool to support what staff are
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    engineering and traffic staff already
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    do. Sometimes what takes months to do,
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    it could take two or three months to
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    identify uh solutions. Sometimes two two
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    to three months will turn into two to
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    three days of work once they we start to
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    use the the generative AI tools to help
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    us identify the problems more uniquely
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    and come up with solutions to address
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    those traffic congestion points. And
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    finally uh the vulnerable users of our
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    transportation system people who are
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    walking and biking uh in in California.
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    I'll tell you a lot of people don't know
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    this this fact. Uh but nearly 10 people
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    a day die using the transportation
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    system in our state. Nearly 30% of them
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    are vulnerable users. So nearly three
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    and 10 uh a day is somebody either
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    walking or biking. So this is a this is
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    a critical issue for us to address on
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    our transportation system. Our numbers
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    uh are can only be compared with Texas.
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    By the way, they're the only other state
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    that has a number that's above 4,000 as
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    far as traffic fatalities. So, it's an
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    important issue. I was excited when uh
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    the governor said he wanted
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    transportation to be uh part of the
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    initial outbreak uh to launch this uh
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    using generative AI. And I I'm looking
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    forward to the tools that we will be
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    able to come up with uh and solutions
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    we'll be able to identify to address
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    traffic fatalities in the state and
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    specifically uh the vulnerable users of
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    our transportation system in California.
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    So again, thank you everybody for being
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    here. Uh look forward to uh any
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    questions that may come later. Uh but
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    next I want to introduce uh a new
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    colleague that the governor has recently
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    appointed uh secretary of gov ops uh
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    Nick Maduros. Nick
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    [Applause]
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    Thank you everybody for being here and
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    thank you for having me. Uh Secretary
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    Mashakin mentioned I'm Nick Madurus. I'm
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    the Secretary of Government Operations.
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    Uh our AY's mission is to focus always
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    on ways we can improve our service to
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    Californians to make government work
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    better. That's our charge from the
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    governor. And under Governor Nuomo's
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    leadership, the state has become a
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    leader in using the latest technology to
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    improve government service. GovOps,
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    which includes the California Department
  • 00:13:54
    of Technology, as well as the Office of
  • 00:13:56
    Data and Innovation, another creation of
  • 00:13:59
    Governor Nuomo, has been helping state
  • 00:14:01
    employees to harness the latest tools so
  • 00:14:03
    that they can work more efficiently and
  • 00:14:06
    effectively on behalf of Californians.
  • 00:14:08
    Uh as secretary Omashan mentioned since
  • 00:14:10
    the governor uh issued his uh generative
  • 00:14:13
    AI executive order in 2023
  • 00:14:16
    uh the state has run under the uh
  • 00:14:19
    leadership of gov ops eight proofs of
  • 00:14:22
    concept across government to experiment
  • 00:14:25
    with the use of genai to see if we can
  • 00:14:28
    uh harness this this technology to
  • 00:14:30
    improve uh government service. One of
  • 00:14:33
    those involved my prior department, the
  • 00:14:35
    California Department of Tax and Fee
  • 00:14:37
    Administration, which uh administers 42
  • 00:14:40
    different tax and fee programs on behalf
  • 00:14:42
    of the state of California. As you can
  • 00:14:44
    imagine, it's complicated to know about
  • 00:14:47
    one tax program, as all of you who just
  • 00:14:49
    filed your tax returns uh can probably
  • 00:14:52
    appreciate, it's very complicated to
  • 00:14:54
    know about 42 uh tax and fee programs.
  • 00:14:57
    And so what Gen AI uh the tool that was
  • 00:15:01
    developed uh what Genai allowed our call
  • 00:15:04
    center operators to do is to uh leverage
  • 00:15:07
    the tool so that they could uh more
  • 00:15:10
    quickly and more effectively answer
  • 00:15:12
    taxpayer questions as they called in. uh
  • 00:15:15
    it would listen along to the call in a
  • 00:15:17
    secure environment and uh immediately
  • 00:15:20
    search through thousands and thousands
  • 00:15:22
    of pages of California tax law uh to
  • 00:15:25
    suggest answers to the operators. It's
  • 00:15:28
    especially helpful for those uh call
  • 00:15:30
    center operators who are newer in their
  • 00:15:32
    jobs. And using this next generation
  • 00:15:34
    assistant
  • 00:15:36
    uh cuts down on call vault co call call
  • 00:15:38
    time allows uh for the call center
  • 00:15:42
    operators to more easily take notes
  • 00:15:44
    which immediately go into the
  • 00:15:45
    taxpayers's files so that we can next
  • 00:15:47
    time they call if they have to call
  • 00:15:49
    again it will uh bring up their prior
  • 00:15:52
    conversation
  • 00:15:53
    and allows us to leverage the team
  • 00:15:56
    members that we have and keep others uh
  • 00:15:59
    who may be doing collections or audits
  • 00:16:01
    keep them doing their regular for work
  • 00:16:03
    instead of getting on the phones. And
  • 00:16:04
    we're taking the lessons that we learned
  • 00:16:06
    and we can use those across the state's
  • 00:16:08
    call centers. Uh GovOps is also through
  • 00:16:11
    the California Department of Technology
  • 00:16:14
    uh working on developing the first in
  • 00:16:16
    the nation state digital assistance uh
  • 00:16:19
    with the state's highest managed uh
  • 00:16:21
    cloud highest security managed cloud
  • 00:16:23
    environment. No state data leaves the
  • 00:16:26
    state's secure environment and the
  • 00:16:28
    pilots's onboarding currently eight
  • 00:16:30
    state departments to test how Gen AI can
  • 00:16:32
    be used as a productivity tool to
  • 00:16:34
    summarize and analyze state data. Rather
  • 00:16:37
    in the proofs of concept we had very
  • 00:16:39
    specific uh tools that we were testing
  • 00:16:42
    out. In this next phase, we're now
  • 00:16:45
    getting general tools and giving them to
  • 00:16:47
    state employees and letting them uh
  • 00:16:49
    discover how they can best use those
  • 00:16:51
    tools to improve taxpayer or uh service
  • 00:16:55
    to Californians. Anyway, with that, um
  • 00:16:57
    you know, Governor Nuomo knows that
  • 00:16:59
    improving government efficiency isn't
  • 00:17:01
    only about technology, but he also knows
  • 00:17:04
    that it's very difficult to meet the
  • 00:17:06
    expectation
  • 00:17:07
    uh expectations of today's Californians
  • 00:17:09
    with technology that may be 10 or 20
  • 00:17:12
    years old. Uh so we're giving our team
  • 00:17:15
    uh the tools they need to deliver uh to
  • 00:17:18
    Californians the services that they
  • 00:17:20
    need. And with that uh let me uh
  • 00:17:22
    introduce a man who needs no
  • 00:17:24
    introduction, our governor Gavin
  • 00:17:26
    Newsome. There you thank you. Thanks. Um
  • 00:17:30
    thank you U Mark. Thank you for having
  • 00:17:31
    us here. Uh we appreciate all the I I
  • 00:17:34
    appreciate I don't know if you're
  • 00:17:35
    working back there or this is part of
  • 00:17:38
    the the job but thank you to the
  • 00:17:40
    Accenture employees that are that are
  • 00:17:42
    here in the background and thank you for
  • 00:17:43
    your engagement and thank you for being
  • 00:17:44
    part of this. We're announcing a new
  • 00:17:46
    partnership with you and partnership
  • 00:17:48
    with uh uh a number of other um um
  • 00:17:52
    employers and Gen AI leaders in this
  • 00:17:56
    state. But I'm very grateful uh and
  • 00:17:58
    humbled by the opportunity to be here
  • 00:17:59
    with you. I want to thank Audrey in
  • 00:18:01
    particular. For those of you who don't
  • 00:18:02
    know, Audrey is a big deal. Um Audrey is
  • 00:18:07
    one of the world's leaders in this space
  • 00:18:10
    and Audrey has been uh foundational in
  • 00:18:14
    terms of establishing a framework of
  • 00:18:16
    expectation uh that allowed us to dream
  • 00:18:19
    big and be bold in terms of what we are
  • 00:18:23
    announcing today and what we're sharing
  • 00:18:25
    with you. I want to thank Tino uh for
  • 00:18:27
    his stewardship and leadership for being
  • 00:18:29
    there in the beginning uh and having our
  • 00:18:32
    back at Carnegie in partnership with the
  • 00:18:33
    Mcruuin Institute and others and a
  • 00:18:35
    number of other philanthropic partners
  • 00:18:37
    uh that helped establish the platform
  • 00:18:39
    engaged uh California uh that Tino was
  • 00:18:43
    referencing. I want to thank Tes uh for
  • 00:18:45
    his leadership and stepping up. There's
  • 00:18:46
    not a Secretary of Transportation in the
  • 00:18:48
    United States of America by definition
  • 00:18:50
    doing more with Genai than his agency.
  • 00:18:53
    Period. Full stop. nothing is happening
  • 00:18:56
    in the United States of America at the
  • 00:18:58
    scale and scope that is happening here
  • 00:19:01
    in the state of California. So, I
  • 00:19:03
    appreciate uh Mr. Secretary, your
  • 00:19:05
    leadership and as Nick laid out, his
  • 00:19:08
    leadership in his former role uh at the
  • 00:19:12
    Department of Tax and Fee uh
  • 00:19:14
    Administration and now running
  • 00:19:16
    government operations uh and now
  • 00:19:18
    responsible for a larger portfolio uh of
  • 00:19:22
    agencies and department heads. I'd be
  • 00:19:23
    remiss and I'll get to my comments, but
  • 00:19:26
    I want to also just acknowledge Amy Tong
  • 00:19:29
    who has been our principal leader for
  • 00:19:33
    she brought fans with her uh on all of
  • 00:19:36
    this and it it is stitching together all
  • 00:19:38
    of these pieces and and I say stitching
  • 00:19:41
    together because uh candidly this is
  • 00:19:43
    hard to communicate for many of us. It's
  • 00:19:46
    hard to disseminate for the media and
  • 00:19:49
    it's hard to distill the essence for the
  • 00:19:52
    public. Um, I could have easily come in
  • 00:19:55
    here with sunglasses and uh, you know,
  • 00:20:00
    uh,
  • 00:20:01
    chainsaws. Uh, you know where I'm going
  • 00:20:04
    and gotten your attention. I could
  • 00:20:07
    regail you and give you stories about
  • 00:20:09
    how we're tearing things
  • 00:20:11
    down and we can celebrate the conflict
  • 00:20:15
    and and the energy and that would run
  • 00:20:18
    with the news and people feel like well
  • 00:20:19
    at least they're doing something and
  • 00:20:22
    people would say well you know they seem
  • 00:20:23
    to be taking action. Government is
  • 00:20:25
    bloated. It's not effective. It's not
  • 00:20:27
    efficient. It's not engaged. Uh we want
  • 00:20:29
    to shake the machine and that's a pretty
  • 00:20:32
    effective communication strategy.
  • 00:20:34
    There's no doubt about it. I was sitting
  • 00:20:36
    literally on Sunday um front court uh of
  • 00:20:41
    my nine-year-old's basketball game and a
  • 00:20:44
    father to me said, "You know, Governor,
  • 00:20:47
    I didn't I didn't want to talk politics
  • 00:20:49
    as the kids halftime." He goes, "But you
  • 00:20:52
    know, is there something, you know,
  • 00:20:53
    wouldn't it be good if the blue states
  • 00:20:55
    would come together and do a doge a doge
  • 00:20:58
    for blue states?" I I know. I know. And
  • 00:20:59
    I was I was trying to explain. I said,
  • 00:21:01
    "What do you mean?" I said, "No, let me
  • 00:21:03
    explain." Goes, "No, no, it wasn't." I
  • 00:21:05
    said, "Well, we we have been." He goes,
  • 00:21:07
    "Well, you really should do that." I
  • 00:21:08
    said, "No, no, we have been." He goes,
  • 00:21:09
    "I really encourage you to do this." And
  • 00:21:13
    and I started explaining what we're
  • 00:21:15
    doing and his eyes glazed over. He wants
  • 00:21:19
    to see the chainsaw. He wants the
  • 00:21:22
    sunglass. He wants the theatrics, the
  • 00:21:23
    performative side of this. He wants the
  • 00:21:25
    friction. He wants the
  • 00:21:28
    protests because then it's a proof point
  • 00:21:31
    of the concept. Without that, he
  • 00:21:34
    struggles. And without that, we have
  • 00:21:36
    struggled to communicate this. Let me
  • 00:21:38
    give you a proof point. The announcement
  • 00:21:39
    we're making today was done in
  • 00:21:41
    partnership with state workers and
  • 00:21:45
    employees. They're celebrating it
  • 00:21:47
    because we're not doing things to them.
  • 00:21:49
    We're doing things with them. SEIU 1000,
  • 00:21:51
    one of the largest bargaining units in
  • 00:21:53
    the state of California, they helped us
  • 00:21:55
    design this. That's the difference to
  • 00:21:58
    our approach. And by the way, it's an
  • 00:22:00
    approach we began not in response to
  • 00:22:04
    Doge when we got here six years ago. One
  • 00:22:08
    of my first acts was to remind people
  • 00:22:10
    that I wrote a book on this subject
  • 00:22:13
    matter. I'm not here to promote it, but
  • 00:22:16
    you can buy it. The best way to buy it
  • 00:22:18
    is in bulk. Uh, Citizenville, how to
  • 00:22:22
    take Town Square Digital, reinvent
  • 00:22:24
    government. And it was inspired by the
  • 00:22:26
    original doge
  • 00:22:28
    um back when I was very engaged as a
  • 00:22:31
    county supervisor uh with then former
  • 00:22:34
    vice president Al Gore and the work they
  • 00:22:37
    did on reinvent government and it
  • 00:22:39
    inspired me. I I remember Al Gore
  • 00:22:42
    working with me as a candidate and we
  • 00:22:44
    did something called great cities, great
  • 00:22:45
    ideas and it was really about taking
  • 00:22:47
    best practices and we did a white paper
  • 00:22:48
    on this and I brought that in some of
  • 00:22:50
    the work I did in county of San
  • 00:22:52
    Francisco and efficiency plans and
  • 00:22:54
    customer service plans and strategic
  • 00:22:56
    plans and focusing on outcomes. As
  • 00:22:58
    lieutenant governor, I put this book
  • 00:22:59
    together, my thoughts as it relates to
  • 00:23:02
    platform thinking, not machine thinking.
  • 00:23:03
    I was inspired by this guy David Kettle
  • 00:23:05
    who wrote uh a piece which to this day
  • 00:23:08
    is perhaps the best piece piece about
  • 00:23:11
    government. He said government is
  • 00:23:12
    nothing more than a vending machine. You
  • 00:23:16
    vote, we decide and you get limited
  • 00:23:18
    choices. Police, fire, healthcare,
  • 00:23:20
    education. If you don't like the
  • 00:23:21
    machine, you shake the machine. You kick
  • 00:23:23
    the
  • 00:23:24
    machine. And his argument was government
  • 00:23:26
    needs to be a platform. Platform
  • 00:23:28
    thinking and really radically changed my
  • 00:23:30
    approach to the way I thought about
  • 00:23:32
    government. effective, efficient, more
  • 00:23:34
    engaged, engaged government, not you
  • 00:23:37
    vote, I decide, two-way
  • 00:23:40
    conversations. So, this
  • 00:23:44
    engaged.ca.gov platform we've created,
  • 00:23:46
    first of its kind in the country,
  • 00:23:48
    inspired by the work in Taiwan, is about
  • 00:23:52
    engaging you, particularly here in LA as
  • 00:23:54
    it relates to the wildfire recovery. And
  • 00:23:57
    it's a deliberative process. It's a
  • 00:23:59
    process, by the way, that over the
  • 00:24:00
    course of just the last few months has
  • 00:24:03
    now received over 7,400 individuals that
  • 00:24:07
    want to participate in it. We have a 28%
  • 00:24:10
    conversion rate to people that signed up
  • 00:24:12
    to people that are participating in it.
  • 00:24:14
    Uh, industry standards about 5% and it's
  • 00:24:17
    proving that people do want to be
  • 00:24:19
    engaged between elections and they don't
  • 00:24:22
    all want to be engaged in a town hall or
  • 00:24:24
    lining up with other voices. uh because
  • 00:24:26
    some people are just a little more
  • 00:24:28
    timid, some people uh want more choice
  • 00:24:30
    as it relates to how they engage and
  • 00:24:32
    deliver a process. So engaged California
  • 00:24:35
    uh is a process that continues to unfold
  • 00:24:37
    and a process that will conclude uh in
  • 00:24:40
    about five to six weeks and it's a
  • 00:24:44
    process that's already proven its
  • 00:24:49
    success. We have engaged thousands of
  • 00:24:51
    people. They have engaged each other and
  • 00:24:56
    now they'll be in the final phase of a
  • 00:24:57
    deliberative process to build consensus
  • 00:25:00
    around what they want to see as it
  • 00:25:01
    relates to the recovery in Altadena and
  • 00:25:04
    Palisades. But that's one component
  • 00:25:05
    part. The broader part is the
  • 00:25:08
    introduction of generative AI and doing
  • 00:25:11
    it at scale to solve some of the most
  • 00:25:12
    vexing problems in this state. And we
  • 00:25:15
    went through a process where we're able
  • 00:25:17
    to do this because we changed our
  • 00:25:19
    procurement process years and years ago.
  • 00:25:21
    Something called RFI2, which is just a
  • 00:25:23
    fancy way of saying innovation ideas.
  • 00:25:26
    the two uh requests for innovative ideas
  • 00:25:30
    and it's a sandbox rather than going
  • 00:25:33
    through a long process as Tesl was
  • 00:25:35
    describing that takes years and years
  • 00:25:37
    and years an RFI, RFQ, RFP, uh request
  • 00:25:40
    for proposals, lobbyists getting
  • 00:25:41
    involved uh and people frankly
  • 00:25:44
    protecting incumbency. We created a
  • 00:25:46
    sandbox to iterate and people are able
  • 00:25:49
    to iterate in real time. That's what led
  • 00:25:51
    to nationleading technology in
  • 00:25:54
    firefighting. We announced all that a
  • 00:25:55
    couple days ago. People always say,
  • 00:25:57
    "Well, you need to do more in technology
  • 00:25:59
    and firefighting." Well, people travel
  • 00:26:00
    the world to see California's leadership
  • 00:26:03
    as it relates to the introduction of
  • 00:26:04
    artificial intelligence and what we're
  • 00:26:06
    doing as it relates to real time
  • 00:26:08
    monitoring and uh and predictive
  • 00:26:10
    analysis through Technosila and other
  • 00:26:12
    partners that we have in the space. So,
  • 00:26:14
    we're taking that same mindset in the
  • 00:26:16
    RFI 2 frame into the Gen AI space. Yes,
  • 00:26:19
    aided by another executive order, but
  • 00:26:22
    now it's happening. And it's happening
  • 00:26:24
    at a scale again it's not happening in
  • 00:26:26
    any other state in the country. And what
  • 00:26:28
    Nick just referenced is a component part
  • 00:26:30
    and I'll close on this um that now we're
  • 00:26:33
    also engaging in this sandbox with all
  • 00:26:36
    kinds of AI partners. It's piloted just
  • 00:26:38
    in these eight departments. it will
  • 00:26:40
    spread out more broadly where
  • 00:26:42
    everybody's in where Gemini is in which
  • 00:26:44
    is Google where AWS and Amazon is in
  • 00:26:48
    where you know the folks at Open AI are
  • 00:26:50
    in and others and employees can start to
  • 00:26:54
    iterate and choose what they want learn
  • 00:26:56
    how these technologies can aid and
  • 00:26:59
    advance their work to make them more
  • 00:27:01
    productive to make them happier and to
  • 00:27:03
    provide more choice and more voice for
  • 00:27:05
    customers end users taxpayers in this
  • 00:27:08
    state and so That is an exciting
  • 00:27:11
    space that is a preview into the future
  • 00:27:15
    that is taking place and shape here
  • 00:27:18
    first in the state of California. So we
  • 00:27:21
    we talk about this as the three E um E3
  • 00:27:25
    we can call it as a as it relates to
  • 00:27:28
    being more efficient, yes, more engaged
  • 00:27:31
    um and uh and more effective because at
  • 00:27:33
    the end of the day it's about outcome
  • 00:27:35
    and it's about uh results. And so across
  • 00:27:39
    the spectrum, that's our framework.
  • 00:27:41
    That's our mindset. We've been at this
  • 00:27:43
    for years and years and years. billions
  • 00:27:45
    and billions of dollars of
  • 00:27:47
    savings partnerships that have led the
  • 00:27:50
    nation in terms of paperless
  • 00:27:53
    transactions in terms of technological
  • 00:27:57
    advancements in terms of the uh customer
  • 00:28:00
    service uh that has been provided and uh
  • 00:28:04
    and efforts that continue to this day uh
  • 00:28:07
    through generative AI uh and in tomorrow
  • 00:28:09
    that uh uh will I think produce results
  • 00:28:13
    worthy
  • 00:28:14
    of your tax dollars. So, forgive the
  • 00:28:17
    long-windedness. Um, you know, this is
  • 00:28:21
    exciting stuff, but it's hard to
  • 00:28:25
    communicate in a way uh that uh you
  • 00:28:28
    know, can break through uh the the
  • 00:28:31
    five:00 news. That said, this is about
  • 00:28:33
    traffic, LA. So, if you care about
  • 00:28:35
    traffic, you care about getting to work
  • 00:28:38
    on time, uh, getting home, getting the
  • 00:28:41
    kids, uh, then pay attention. Genai has
  • 00:28:44
    come to traffic management in this state
  • 00:28:46
    in a way that doesn't exist in any other
  • 00:28:48
    state in America. With that, we're happy
  • 00:28:52
    to take any questions.
  • 00:28:54
    Thanks. To that point, how do you
  • 00:28:57
    communicate? What exactly are you doing
  • 00:29:00
    today?
  • 00:29:04
    Well, we with Tino and others, we're
  • 00:29:06
    actually having a big round table uh on
  • 00:29:08
    engaged uh California because we want to
  • 00:29:11
    take that model that that process of a
  • 00:29:13
    deliberative democratic model. We want
  • 00:29:15
    to take it well beyond just wildfire
  • 00:29:17
    recovery here in Los Angeles. It's
  • 00:29:19
    interesting and Audrey can talk about
  • 00:29:21
    this. This started as an idea in Taiwan,
  • 00:29:24
    I think around the issue of Uber versus
  • 00:29:27
    taxis. And government said, "Well, what
  • 00:29:30
    are what is what do the people think?"
  • 00:29:32
    And they said, "Well, we'll just do a
  • 00:29:33
    poll." And they said, "No, no, a poll is
  • 00:29:35
    sort of static. Why don't have a
  • 00:29:36
    deliberative process?" They said, "How
  • 00:29:37
    do you do that town hall? It's a
  • 00:29:39
    country." They said, "No, well, let's
  • 00:29:40
    use a digital platform and engage
  • 00:29:42
    everyone in the country and have this
  • 00:29:44
    two-way conversation." And that inspired
  • 00:29:46
    a whole movement that has now inspired
  • 00:29:49
    our movement in this space, and we want
  • 00:29:51
    to extend it in all other areas uh of
  • 00:29:54
    our democracy here in California. But
  • 00:29:56
    Audrey, maybe you can explain just a
  • 00:29:58
    little bit more because I think this is
  • 00:29:59
    really fascinating just that first
  • 00:30:01
    process as it relates to Uber versus
  • 00:30:03
    taxi, the past versus the future. Uh
  • 00:30:06
    thank you, Governor. Um so to your
  • 00:30:09
    question, uh I think first of all in
  • 00:30:11
    Taiwan uh when we talked about the Uber
  • 00:30:14
    issue, uh we do not uh use abstract like
  • 00:30:17
    uh is this extractive or is the sharing
  • 00:30:19
    economy what's the future of uh right
  • 00:30:21
    sharing? Not nothing like that. uh we
  • 00:30:23
    simply ask people one very simple
  • 00:30:25
    question. How do you feel if uh somebody
  • 00:30:28
    with no professional driver license
  • 00:30:30
    driving to work, picking up stranger
  • 00:30:31
    they met on the app and charging them
  • 00:30:33
    for it? Um and so something very
  • 00:30:35
    specific and we asked for people's
  • 00:30:37
    feelings because people are experts in
  • 00:30:39
    their feelings and very quickly uh we
  • 00:30:41
    visualized um that people some people
  • 00:30:44
    feel sympathetic to the taxi driver,
  • 00:30:46
    some people to Uber, some people to the
  • 00:30:48
    rural places, so on and so forth. But
  • 00:30:50
    the great thing about this kind of
  • 00:30:52
    bridgemaking or pro-social media is that
  • 00:30:54
    it showed what are the uncommon grounds,
  • 00:30:56
    the common ground that was hidden in
  • 00:30:58
    plain sight. For example, um the
  • 00:31:00
    software analyze it with AI and showed
  • 00:31:02
    everybody love search pricing but not
  • 00:31:04
    undercutting existing meters and so on
  • 00:31:06
    so forth. the more nuanced idea came to
  • 00:31:09
    the top and instead of the more
  • 00:31:11
    polarized things being you know
  • 00:31:13
    amplified by the um engagement through
  • 00:31:15
    enragement algorithms on social media
  • 00:31:18
    this is the pro-social algorithm that
  • 00:31:20
    just upholds uh the bridges made by the
  • 00:31:22
    people and so by the end of the three
  • 00:31:23
    weeks we have a set of nine very uh
  • 00:31:26
    concrete uh proposals and then we check
  • 00:31:28
    with all the stakeholders and uh as
  • 00:31:30
    recently as last year we also used the
  • 00:31:33
    same process uh to deliberate about
  • 00:31:35
    generative AI's harm uh named ly defakes
  • 00:31:38
    uh fraudulent advertisement and so on.
  • 00:31:40
    And again working with Facebook and
  • 00:31:42
    YouTube and so on uh we uh settled on a
  • 00:31:45
    set of very coherent proposals
  • 00:31:46
    crowdsourced by us sending SMS text
  • 00:31:49
    message to 200,000 random uh numbers in
  • 00:31:52
    Taiwan basically asking again how do you
  • 00:31:55
    feel about online for advertisement that
  • 00:31:57
    was in March the stakeholder
  • 00:31:58
    conversation in April and we proposed a
  • 00:32:01
    draft law to the parliament in May and
  • 00:32:03
    last July it was all passed and so this
  • 00:32:05
    year when you scroll uh in Taiwan you
  • 00:32:07
    don't see fraudulent advertisement
  • 00:32:08
    anymore uh Facebook or your YouTube. Uh
  • 00:32:11
    but all that is because the people
  • 00:32:13
    collectively drawn the overtime window
  • 00:32:15
    what was uh to be expected to overcome
  • 00:32:18
    this urgency without the government
  • 00:32:20
    overstepping on censorship or things
  • 00:32:22
    like that. People had very sensible
  • 00:32:23
    suggestion like KYC and so on and so
  • 00:32:26
    forth. So I think the uh two keys here
  • 00:32:28
    are the shared common urgency and also
  • 00:32:30
    the air cover the pre-commitment uh from
  • 00:32:32
    the president or the governor uh to uh
  • 00:32:35
    really consider the uncommon ground
  • 00:32:36
    coming from the people. Thank you.
  • 00:32:39
    So, I I don't know. This is exciting
  • 00:32:41
    stuff because it goes to the central
  • 00:32:42
    question we're all asking ourselves. How
  • 00:32:44
    the hell can we work together? How do we
  • 00:32:48
    get along? All these people screaming
  • 00:32:50
    and yelling, talking past each other,
  • 00:32:52
    down to one another. How do we find
  • 00:32:54
    consensus? This is the how. And so,
  • 00:32:56
    we're in the how business, not in the
  • 00:32:58
    what and why business any longer. And
  • 00:32:59
    we've created this platform and it's
  • 00:33:01
    exceeded expectation already in LA just
  • 00:33:04
    on this regional wildfire issue. And
  • 00:33:06
    imagine putting that to use in the
  • 00:33:08
    largest uh uh subnational uh uh
  • 00:33:12
    democracy in the United States,
  • 00:33:14
    California. And I think it's a pretty
  • 00:33:15
    exciting limitless possibilities. That
  • 00:33:18
    question of how do you get along? You
  • 00:33:19
    and Elon Musk used to get along pretty
  • 00:33:21
    well. Yeah. How are you getting along
  • 00:33:23
    now?
  • 00:33:25
    See, this is what this is why we never I
  • 00:33:27
    need my chainsaw. Um um now I haven't
  • 00:33:31
    talked to him lately.
  • 00:33:33
    um unsurprising, but a lot of folks that
  • 00:33:35
    that knew him for decades. I haven't
  • 00:33:37
    talked to him lately. Uh I've talked to
  • 00:33:39
    a lot of those folks uh comparing notes
  • 00:33:41
    and uh you know hopefully he comes back
  • 00:33:44
    around. Feel like uh he's been you know
  • 00:33:49
    there's some new challenges he's facing.
  • 00:33:51
    Um and uh and I think you know one of
  • 00:33:54
    them is fulfilling um the expectations
  • 00:33:58
    that he set for Doge which seem
  • 00:34:01
    unfulfilled. They haven't come close to
  • 00:34:03
    the savings they've asserted and even
  • 00:34:06
    the savings they have asserted when you
  • 00:34:08
    stress test it um shows holes. So, uh, I
  • 00:34:11
    think it's been very damaging, uh,
  • 00:34:13
    including, by the way, the fact that,
  • 00:34:15
    uh, Doge, uh, cut $400 million from
  • 00:34:21
    Americanore. That was SARS Shrivever
  • 00:34:24
    1965. You know, you know, the best of
  • 00:34:28
    people coming together across their
  • 00:34:30
    differences for shared experiences
  • 00:34:33
    um, in in in in service to our nation.
  • 00:34:36
    Uh that was a baton that was passed from
  • 00:34:39
    Republican administrations, Democratic
  • 00:34:41
    administrations, just eliminated, wiped
  • 00:34:43
    out $400 million. Why we're advancing
  • 00:34:46
    our 16th lawsuit uh against the
  • 00:34:48
    administration. Um if that's his legacy,
  • 00:34:52
    um it's uh tarnishing the legacy uh that
  • 00:34:56
    he should otherwise be proud of creating
  • 00:34:58
    one of the world's great automobile
  • 00:34:59
    companies and and uh rocket companies.
  • 00:35:02
    You reference Elon Musk and a lot of
  • 00:35:04
    people are going to see this Think about
  • 00:35:07
    Doge. How old is I know I know we're
  • 00:35:10
    Doge but better and we've been Doge but
  • 00:35:13
    but better for literally six years. Um
  • 00:35:16
    you know you can go back there's uh
  • 00:35:20
    amazing that we still have the tapes of
  • 00:35:23
    our announcements uh around uh ODI and
  • 00:35:27
    all of these uh reforms and efficiencies
  • 00:35:30
    that we've been advancing for years and
  • 00:35:31
    years and years. It's just again
  • 00:35:33
    difficult to sort of break out uh of
  • 00:35:36
    that you know the detention challenge
  • 00:35:38
    and again it's it's we want conflict we
  • 00:35:41
    want friction and this is why I'm really
  • 00:35:43
    proud of this we haven't provided that
  • 00:35:45
    because we've been doing it with people
  • 00:35:47
    not to people
  • 00:35:56
    yeah I mean it's I don't know why he
  • 00:36:00
    needed to do his own analysis as well
  • 00:36:01
    described described the number of
  • 00:36:03
    sanctuary municipalities, jurisdictions,
  • 00:36:05
    states across this country that have
  • 00:36:08
    existed for decades and decades,
  • 00:36:10
    generation. Um, but obviously we're
  • 00:36:13
    concerned what does he mean to do with
  • 00:36:16
    this executive order? Identifying
  • 00:36:18
    sanctuary um status hardly is novel is
  • 00:36:22
    the point. So, it's the what's his
  • 00:36:24
    intention behind it? Uh we know there
  • 00:36:26
    was an effort um San Francisco led uh uh
  • 00:36:30
    the effort uh to push back with other
  • 00:36:33
    cities uh to begin the process of
  • 00:36:36
    starting defund sanctuary jurisdictions
  • 00:36:38
    but well well established I've got one
  • 00:36:41
    of the world's leading minds when it
  • 00:36:43
    comes to courts his honor himself uh but
  • 00:36:45
    the ninth circuit ad judicated uh
  • 00:36:48
    upholding um California's sanctuary
  • 00:36:51
    status number of years ago and and uh
  • 00:36:54
    that same judge used uh that frame, that
  • 00:36:56
    appellet decision uh federal court
  • 00:36:58
    decision to um to um allow an injunction
  • 00:37:02
    to be filed on behalf of San Francisco
  • 00:37:04
    and these other cities as it relates to
  • 00:37:05
    Trump's latest efforts. So, we'll see
  • 00:37:07
    what the intent is ultimately, but uh uh
  • 00:37:10
    we're we're we're not naive and uh we
  • 00:37:12
    remain vigilant. Do you have an idea?
  • 00:37:16
    It's Look,
  • 00:37:18
    I we California's sanctuary status um
  • 00:37:23
    has is legal. Period. Full stop. Uh we
  • 00:37:26
    apply um rigor to aligning oursel with
  • 00:37:30
    federal law. And uh and again that was
  • 00:37:33
    stress test independently stress tested
  • 00:37:35
    independently by uh the federal courts
  • 00:37:38
    and they upheld our point of view and
  • 00:37:41
    our sanctuary status. So I think we are
  • 00:37:44
    in good u good sound footing. That said,
  • 00:37:48
    uh it's a very hyper political
  • 00:37:51
    environment and u he's trying to score
  • 00:37:54
    political points. Uh but our job is to
  • 00:37:57
    um remind communities of their rights,
  • 00:38:00
    to remind our diverse communities that
  • 00:38:02
    we have their back. Uh and I'm here to
  • 00:38:05
    remind you the reason I called for the
  • 00:38:07
    special session in the state legislature
  • 00:38:08
    was to do just that. And we appropriated
  • 00:38:11
    resources. It's why we've been able to
  • 00:38:13
    file 16 lawsuits without supplementals
  • 00:38:15
    to the Department of Justice. And also
  • 00:38:18
    remind you that component part of that
  • 00:38:20
    was millions and millions of dollars for
  • 00:38:22
    legal defense for our diverse
  • 00:38:23
    communities. money that just by the way
  • 00:38:25
    notices of funding availability that
  • 00:38:27
    went out last week specific uh Lee
  • 00:38:30
    because of the special session and to
  • 00:38:32
    continue to do more in terms of our
  • 00:38:34
    protecting our diverse communities uh
  • 00:38:37
    and and again doing what we can to
  • 00:38:40
    assert ourselves as only California can
  • 00:38:42
    as the largest state in our union uh and
  • 00:38:45
    push back uh aggressively. Governor,
  • 00:38:48
    it's the president's day and we spent a
  • 00:38:51
    lot of time thinking about
  • 00:38:55
    having effectively how effectively
  • 00:39:02
    pushured in terms of
  • 00:39:06
    Well, I look I'm not naive. You know,
  • 00:39:08
    we're we're here in LA and we have a lot
  • 00:39:10
    at stake here um in terms of of federal
  • 00:39:14
    support. Um I also think it's important
  • 00:39:17
    to remind you and your viewers uh
  • 00:39:19
    California is a donor state. $83.1
  • 00:39:22
    billion more. We provided the federal
  • 00:39:24
    government. The federal government
  • 00:39:25
    provided us. I'll put that in
  • 00:39:27
    perspective. Texas received $71.1
  • 00:39:31
    billion more than they provided the
  • 00:39:33
    federal government. I'll repeat that.
  • 00:39:35
    $83 million the taxpayers of California
  • 00:39:38
    gave the federal government. The federal
  • 00:39:40
    government gave 71 million more to the
  • 00:39:43
    folks in Texas. We punch way above our
  • 00:39:46
    weight. Was Mark's opening statement. Um
  • 00:39:48
    and uh and so we we feel we've done a
  • 00:39:51
    lot and we feel uh the people of
  • 00:39:55
    Southern California deserve uh that
  • 00:39:57
    support in return at a time of
  • 00:39:59
    emergency. So our approach remains
  • 00:40:01
    steady after 100 days open hand not a
  • 00:40:04
    closed fist when it comes to these areas
  • 00:40:06
    that are non-political for me when it
  • 00:40:08
    comes to emergency preparedness,
  • 00:40:09
    emergency management, emergency response
  • 00:40:11
    and recovery. That's not political. It's
  • 00:40:13
    non-negotiable. And you saw that
  • 00:40:15
    approach as it relates to Trump and
  • 00:40:17
    COVID in relationship to the two years I
  • 00:40:20
    served as governor uh under his first
  • 00:40:22
    administration. As it relates to our
  • 00:40:24
    values and the question that was just
  • 00:40:26
    asked around diverse communities and
  • 00:40:27
    attacking vulnerable communities, we'll
  • 00:40:29
    stand tall. will stand firm um going
  • 00:40:32
    after um things we hold dear um across a
  • 00:40:37
    spectrum of issues from environmental
  • 00:40:39
    stewardship uh to areas around service
  • 00:40:42
    um and the contributions of our diverse
  • 00:40:44
    communities. Uh we will assert ourselves
  • 00:40:46
    and uh we'll do it boldly uh and firmly.
  • 00:40:49
    And so that's the approach. We're trying
  • 00:40:51
    not to be performative. We're trying not
  • 00:40:52
    to extend sort of virtue signals. When
  • 00:40:55
    something is critical and important,
  • 00:40:57
    we'll assert ourselves. Otherwise, uh we
  • 00:41:00
    try to sort of avoid uh moving in in too
  • 00:41:04
    many distracted directions.
  • 00:41:07
    Governor, you mentioned the wildfire
  • 00:41:09
    relief. Are you satisfied with response?
  • 00:41:15
    Well, I'm I'm not only satisfied, I'
  • 00:41:18
    I've been inspired uh by the partnership
  • 00:41:20
    with the US Army Corps of Engineers uh
  • 00:41:23
    by the Federal EPA. we were able to move
  • 00:41:26
    uh more quickly with phase one of the
  • 00:41:28
    hazardous debris removal uh than any
  • 00:41:30
    jurisdiction uh in decades and we're on
  • 00:41:33
    pace to do the same as it relates to the
  • 00:41:35
    main debris removal uh getting that done
  • 00:41:37
    in a number of months which would be
  • 00:41:39
    historic and unprecedented. So at the
  • 00:41:41
    moment I'm extraordinarily satisfied by
  • 00:41:44
    that partnership. There's been no
  • 00:41:46
    politics to date in this space and I
  • 00:41:50
    you've got to call balls and strikes and
  • 00:41:52
    I want to also just make this point. and
  • 00:41:53
    I spent 90 minutes with the president in
  • 00:41:55
    the oval office. Um, and I don't think
  • 00:41:58
    this, I know this, he put the EPA
  • 00:42:00
    administer on a speaker phone, surprised
  • 00:42:02
    him, got him at the airport, uh, and
  • 00:42:04
    said he was here with the governor of
  • 00:42:05
    California, and he wanted to know the
  • 00:42:07
    president, uh, right then and there. He
  • 00:42:09
    was going to do everything in his power
  • 00:42:10
    to get things done for the state. That
  • 00:42:12
    the president, long-winded point, the
  • 00:42:14
    president himself has been directly
  • 00:42:16
    engaged and supportive of the recovery
  • 00:42:19
    efforts to date. And that's remarkable.
  • 00:42:23
    And that's important the people uh
  • 00:42:25
    people of the state know uh going
  • 00:42:27
    forward as it relates to the
  • 00:42:29
    supplemental and making sure that we're
  • 00:42:31
    made whole. Uh we look forward to
  • 00:42:34
    continuing to dialogue with the
  • 00:42:35
    administration and we're hopeful that
  • 00:42:37
    past is prologue.
  • 00:42:40
    Are there any lessons we learned from
  • 00:42:42
    theatrics? I mean, in terms of
  • 00:42:44
    communicating, are there anything to
  • 00:42:45
    think about? Look, I I think I I think I
  • 00:42:48
    mean, we joke about the the theatrics of
  • 00:42:51
    a uniform or something, but I I think I
  • 00:42:54
    think the most difficult thing is when
  • 00:42:56
    you're tearing something down,
  • 00:42:58
    um it's easy to get attention. Easiest
  • 00:43:00
    thing in the world is tear something
  • 00:43:01
    down. I could do all that in 10 days. I
  • 00:43:03
    don't even need a 100 days to tear
  • 00:43:04
    everything down. Took decades and
  • 00:43:06
    decades to build up. Building things is
  • 00:43:09
    hard. you know, starting from scratch,
  • 00:43:12
    improving things, reforming things. Uh
  • 00:43:15
    that's what we're promoting, efficiency,
  • 00:43:18
    uh engagement, better outcomes and
  • 00:43:20
    results. Uh that's real work. And so I
  • 00:43:23
    think my reflection is
  • 00:43:26
    um that's you
  • 00:43:28
    know that's unfortunate because the
  • 00:43:32
    amount of outsized attention that's
  • 00:43:34
    gotten versus the attention uh builders
  • 00:43:38
    are getting and people are trying to
  • 00:43:39
    build bridges and bring people together
  • 00:43:41
    get uh is disproportionate. There's an
  • 00:43:44
    asymmetry there and that's a broader
  • 00:43:46
    societal conversation and candidly
  • 00:43:48
    that's what engaged.ca.gov gov hopes to
  • 00:43:52
    address a new deliberative platform to
  • 00:43:55
    provide consensus, more voice, more
  • 00:43:58
    choice, and trust the coin of the realm.
  • 00:44:01
    Thank you guys very, very much. Thanks.
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