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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 20:19:43 JST Yuchen Pei
This sounds like deleting dead code by reviewing and applying patches generated by LLM. Not sure if it is a good idea
> Ohio Is Using AI to Cut Red Tape. DOGE Should, Too
https://www.city-journal.org/article/ohio-is-using-ai-to-cut-red-tape-doge-should-too
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The Ohio Common Sense Initiative, a project led by Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted, has used an AI tool called Reg Explorer to review hundreds of years of rules and regulations issued by Ohio state government. “Regulations, while well intended, have consumed our time and our resources as they pile up on one another over time,” Husted told me. “Over the course of 200 years, we passed laws, and you have agencies write rules, and they add up. And it becomes overwhelming.”
“It’s never been anybody’s job to clean it up,” Husted added. “We have made it our job to clean it up.”
A small team of staffers within the lieutenant governor’s office is tasked with manually reviewing rules and regulations identified by AI as exhibiting outdated, redundant, or anachronistic characteristics; the team then shares its recommendations with experts at state agencies for input. Executive action can cut much of that red tape, but some changes require the state legislature’s consent.
So far, the Common Sense Initiative has identified 2 million words and 900 rules from the administrative code as unnecessary. The program has eliminated 600,000 words of text from the state’s building code alone and has slashed several outdated paper-filing and in-person-appearance requirements. The state projects that the initiative will save $44 million in tax dollars and 58,000 hours of labor by 2033.