Welcome to Episode 4 of How'd they do it: Tech in the cities! Co-host Julie Samuels chats with Harvard Business School’s Professor of Management Practice Mitch Weiss on how to reduce fear and resistance to AI tools for teaching and learning, while also ensuring students continue to think for themselves. Additionally, we delve into how the government could be limiting its effectiveness by trying to regulate AI tools without the necessary usage experience it takes to understand them.

Welcome to Episode 3 of How'd they do it: Tech in the cities! Co-hosts Tom Allon and Julie Samuels chat with SUNY Chancellor John B. King and CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez about how universities are leading the efforts to use AI ethically, and how it can be used to better serve students.

We're back with Episode 2 of How'd they do it: Tech in the cities! Co-hosts Tom Allon and Julie Samuels chat with Governor Kathy Hochul about what it means to have "responsible AI", how we can innovate in a way that's inclusive, and how to forge a path for New York that borrows inspiration from the tech centers in California, but ultimately surpasses what they offer tech employees. They go on to speak with Bloomberg Government's Legislative Correspondent Zach Williams and City & State Senior City Hall Reporter Annie McDonough, to continue that conversation and dive into analysis.

We're tackling all the big questions about contactless payments in this episode: Can there ever be a truly cashless transit system? How does the government use the data it collects from these contactless payments? Could that data be used to provide increased access to government services for underserved populations?

Co-hosts Tom Allon and Julie Samuels dive into it all with MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer, MTA Senior Director for Commercial Strategy Jessica Lazarus, Cal-ITP Project Head Gillian Gillett and California Department of Technology's Digital Identity Chief & Chief Product Officer Greg Fair. Click here to stream the episode.

While New York is often paving the way in terms of technology and its relationship with the government, we also have a lot to learn from other leading cities and states.

Hosted by Tom Allon, Publisher of City & State and Julie Samuels, President and Executive Director of Tech:NYC, How’d They Do it?: Tech in the Cities is the bi-weekly, 30-minute show addressing the groundbreakers in technology and government who have had innovative ideas that have been passed into laws or revolutionary concepts that might not work in certain states but could be applied in others.