Rethinking AI for Good Governance

Abstract This essay examines what AI can dofor government, specifically through three generic tools at the heart of governance: detection, prediction, and data-driven decision-making. Public sector functions, such as resource allocation protection rights, are more normatively loaded than those firms, poses greater ethical challenges earlier generations digital technology, threatening transparency, fairness, accountability. The discusses how might be developed for with a public ethos to protect these values. Three moves that could maximize transformative possibilities distinctively development government capacity foster innovation AI; building integrated generalized models policy-making; detection tackling structural inequalities. Combined, developments offer model data-intensive is efficient, ethical, fair, prescient, resilient ever before in administrative history.