Union County Health Department adopts new AI policy

In a move to keep up with the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), the Union County Health Department (UCHD) has adopted its own AI-use policy.

At the UCHD’s Board of Health’s most recent meeting, the board unanimously approved a policy to set guidelines for how AI is used in the department. The policy will go into effect on June 1.

“It’s a critical tool that could go horribly wrong,” said Health Commissioner Jason Orcena. “You have to pay attention to what you’re doing with it.”

The biggest part of the policy is to ensure that staff will not put the department at risk through the use of large language models (LLMs) when working with protected information, Orcena said. He explai…

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