VT AI Economic Taskforce
2026-05-20 17:30:04.742747+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
There is so much wrong with this.... A new body will recommend how state government and Vermont businesses could adopt AI. I mean, obviously, there's starting with the flawed premise:
Through an executive order, Gov. Phil Scott created the Vermont Artificial Intelligence Economic Taskforce on Monday. And first on its agenda, the body must present up to five recommendations within 90 days for how state government could adopt AI to better serve the public. The group will also work to educate state leaders on how they could apply AI to their work.
But then we get to idiocy like this:
Given AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT that prove powerful “off the shelf,” Lunderville said the technology could be a leveler for small companies. For example, he pointed to small manufacturers using AI to draft requests for proposals, which could cut a 20-hour process down to five hours.
Sooooo... what Neal Lunderville, CEO of Vermont Gas and "...experience holding multiple Cabinet-level positions in Vermont", is telling me is that off-loading the RFP process to a third party that everyone else is using is going to give small companies a competitive advantage?
A "leveler" perhaps in that what's obviously an overly cumbersome RFP process is gonna turn into a die roll.