California Department of Transportation is seeking a Chief Data and AI Officer

Not GIS specific, but lots of data management and policy, and they have a huge GIS program (with great people running it), so there'd be a GIS component.

https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=493585

CEA C, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer (Pending CalHR Approval)

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@nickrsan A lot of States right now are hiring their "AI officer" (steward, support, etc). I am kind of a bit afraid of what is going on with those jobs...

@defuneste

Yeah - it's a challenging space - government isn't meant to be bleeding edge - it's meant to be stable, but also, we need to be able to adopt appropriate technology. I appreciate that this position specifically recognizes risks. There are a lot of good people who know both what AI can do and what it can't working on these problems in the California State Government. There are plenty of excited people too, but when I talk policy with responsible people, they're usually grounded.

@nickrsan here in NC it looks like we are "Ai first in flight" 😉