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All of this is acting as if government computers don’t have AI currently. They do in fact, though mostly turned off. The default browser search now pops up an AI assistant. By default my government org has some old crappy free AI on Microsoft edge.

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I think I explained why this is different from the point of view of it being "encouraged" vs. "available". If your employer provides a tool in an official capacity (for example, through single-sign-on, etc.), then you may treat it more like the internal FBI database vs. "Google". Additionally, many of these AI tools you listed don't have the breadth or depth of OpenAI (whether it be "deep research" which itself encourages you to give it documents, etc.). All that being said, yes, there already existed issues with AI, but that's not really a reason to say "oh well", right? It's probably an indication that the right move is developing clear policies on how and when to use these tools. This feels an awful lot like the exact opposite approach: optimizing for "only paying a dollar to use them" and not "exercising caution and safely exploring if there is a benefit to be had without new risk".

>I think I explained why this is different from the point of view of it being "encouraged" vs. "available".

You certainly did. It appears that this point was lost on them.

Thanks for elaborating again.

>They do in fact, though mostly turned off.

Well yeah, that's the entire point.

It's turned off for a good reason, and it should stay that way.

This isn't about availability in general. It's about being officially available. The comment you are responding to explicitly reasoned why it matters.

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