Artificial intelligence
AI on GovFresh.
Thoughts
Every government needs a web bot policy
Build your bot policy now and work with your digital team or vendor to implement it.
By Luke Fretwell
Bot gov
Optimizing digital government for AI and other machines.
By Luke Fretwell
Government websites are dead. Long live government websites.
AI will expedite government services moving from aesthetic design to machine-readable data.
By Luke Fretwell
Using AI to build a personal government technology podcast
I created podcast-like overviews of FedRAMP, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, TechFAR and Zero Trust with Google NotebookLM's deep dive feature.
By Luke Fretwell
How government can help build better AI
Beyond policy, proactive engagement and better data management will make government a good steward and partner in responsible artificial intelligence efforts.
By Luke Fretwell
Demos
Project ScanGov
Project ScanGov co-maintainer Luke Fretwell gives a demo of the latest updates.
Watch
Briefs
Open source AI
A brief-ish explainer of open source artificial intelligence.
Research
AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook
GovFresh research notes on the AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook.
Declaration for the Future of the Internet
GovFresh research notes on the Declaration for the Future of the Internet.
Public AI
GovFresh research notes on public artificial intelligence.
Open Source AI Definition
GovFresh research notes on the Open Source Institute's Open Source AI Definition.
AI and the U.S. federal government
GovFresh research notes on artificial intelligence and the U.S. government.
Signal
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December 7, 2022
Retrospecting 2022
Building community, civic hacking with my son, pedigree and public interest technology.
December 15, 2022
White House wants your input on open source software security
A 'civic opportunity to help shape the government’s thinking about open-source software security.'
August 18, 2023
Signal (2024.08.02)
What's on our radar.
August 2, 2024
Signal 2025.03.14
What's on our radar.
March 14, 2025
Books
Unit X
How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
By Christopher Kirchhoff and Raj M. Shah
The Tech Coup
How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
By Marietje Schaake
SpecOps
A New Approach to Modernizing Legacy Technology Systems
By Mark Headd
Read Write Own
Building the Next Era of the Internet
By Chris Dixon