Chris Schmitz
@chrisschmitz.ai
PhD student @ Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School. What if states can deploy lots of cognitive power very soon?
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If you've already bought popcorn for the Alaska news & are twiddling your thumbs, you might want to read @chrisschmitz.ai & my NEW PAPER 🤖🙌 on using AI to INCREASE transparency in a large organisation. Our case is bureaucracy in democracies, but your mileage may conform. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08231
A Moral Agency Framework for Legitimate Integration of AI in Bureaucracies
Public-sector bureaucracies seek to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), but face important concerns about accountability and transparency when using AI systems. In particular, perceptio...
arxiv.org
August 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you've already bought popcorn for the Alaska news & are twiddling your thumbs, you might want to read @chrisschmitz.ai & my NEW PAPER 🤖🙌 on using AI to INCREASE transparency in a large organisation. Our case is bureaucracy in democracies, but your mileage may conform. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08231
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New! Excited for the launch of the Digital State Forum, a new initiative connecting research communities working on digital government, AI and state capacity, led by researchers from @oii.ox.ac.uk, @hertieschool.bsky.social and The Technical University of Munich. Find out more: bit.ly/4ceO5Is.
April 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New! Excited for the launch of the Digital State Forum, a new initiative connecting research communities working on digital government, AI and state capacity, led by researchers from @oii.ox.ac.uk, @hertieschool.bsky.social and The Technical University of Munich. Find out more: bit.ly/4ceO5Is.
AI for government stuff imo focuses too much on the obvious questions about discretion, responsibility etc and not enough on the potential to optimize for organizational goals under process constraints (documentation, traceability, courtesy), which I think could have profound structural impact
January 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
AI for government stuff imo focuses too much on the obvious questions about discretion, responsibility etc and not enough on the potential to optimize for organizational goals under process constraints (documentation, traceability, courtesy), which I think could have profound structural impact
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"a computer can never be held accountable, so a computer must never make a management decision" was correct and we should go back to that
December 5, 2024 at 10:08 PM
"a computer can never be held accountable, so a computer must never make a management decision" was correct and we should go back to that
Feels like one of the big firewalls to huge AI automation of white collar screen work is just that lots of knowledge is too scattered across apps. An average task that requires some info from a jira ticket, an old email and a sharepoint pdf is just as quick now as it was in 2021
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Feels like one of the big firewalls to huge AI automation of white collar screen work is just that lots of knowledge is too scattered across apps. An average task that requires some info from a jira ticket, an old email and a sharepoint pdf is just as quick now as it was in 2021