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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is embarking on a landmark project to use “agentic” artificial intelligence to hasten his 2022 pledge to cut one-quarter of Virginia’s red-tape regulatory structure during his tenure.
The term-limited Republican signed an executive order that introduced a pilot program using AI to scan the entirety of Richmond’s regulations and official guidance.
“We ask each agency to calculate the savings to them associated with any action that is taken. For more information about our methodology, I would point you to the Regulatory Economic Analysis Manual, which can be found online,” Youngkin spokesperson Peter Finocchio told Fox News Digital.
“AI is utilized in two key ways in this process: comparing existing regulations with what is actually required by statute, to identify any redundancies, and comparing Virginia’s regulations to those in other states, to see if other states are accomplishing similar goals more efficiently and with less red tape.”
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“AI is utilized in this way to make recommendations, but there is always a human in the loop making the final decisions, which is required by Executive Order 30,” Finocchio added.
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence that differs from typical reactive bots like ChatGPT or Grok that provide information based on prompts, and instead can be programmed to pursue a goal, make autonomous decisions and take actions.
Driverless cars like Waymo taxis are another real-world example of such technology.
AI will “supercharge” the Youngkin administration’s efforts, his office said in a statement, and help ensure that government is streamlined and modernized to better serve the people of the Old Dominion.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is embarking on a landmark project to use “agentic”…
