Requires thorough fact-checking of AI-generated content by staff. Instructs disclosure when using Generative AI in outputs. Prohibits entering sensitive information into public AI tools. Looks to enhance public service while ensuring AI use is responsible and equitable.
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This is an internal government policy document providing guidelines for city employees' use of Generative AI. It uses primarily mandatory language ('must', 'never', 'always') but lacks formal enforcement mechanisms, penalties, or sanctions typical of hard law.
The document has good coverage of approximately 8-9 subdomains, with strong focus on misinformation (3.1), privacy compromise (2.1), security vulnerabilities (2.2), unfair discrimination (1.1), lack of robustness (7.3), and lack of transparency (7.4). Coverage is concentrated in misinformation, privacy/security, discrimination, and AI system reliability domains.
This is an internal government policy document that governs AI use within San Francisco city government operations. The primary sector governed is Public Administration excluding National Security, as it applies to all city department personnel and their use of Generative AI in delivering public services.
The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, with some coverage of Verify and Validate. It focuses on the use of existing public Generative AI tools by city staff rather than the development of AI systems from scratch.
The document explicitly focuses on Generative AI, defining it and distinguishing it from traditional discriminative AI. It mentions AI models, AI systems, and large language models (LLMs). It does not explicitly mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, or compute thresholds. It does not explicitly address open-weight or open-source models.
City Administrator's Office; Digital & Data Services; Department of Technology; Committee on Information Technology
The document explicitly identifies the City Administrator's Office (led by Digital & Data Services, the Department of Technology, and the Committee on Information Technology) as having developed these guidelines.
City Administrator's Office; Committee on Information Technology; Departmental IT Leaders; Office of Cybersecurity
The City Administrator's Office oversees the guidelines and will update them. Departmental IT leaders have responsibility for supporting appropriate use cases. The Office of Cybersecurity is consulted for security matters.
City Administrator's Office; Committee on Information Technology; Departmental IT Leaders
The document establishes monitoring responsibilities including collecting use cases, tracking usage, and reporting publicly. Departmental IT leaders are expected to track and report uses.
San Francisco city department personnel including employees, contractors, consultants, volunteers, and vendors
The guidelines explicitly apply to all city department personnel who may use Generative AI tools in their work for the City and County of San Francisco.
9 subdomains (4 Good, 5 Minimal)