Public Sector's Highest-Value Move: Build Big Datasets, Let AI Infer the Rest
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-08
The author argues the highest-value thing the public sector can do right now is create large datasets—maps and public data, digitized mineral core samples, Biohub's biological data. AI will inevitably discover the logical inferences in them, so governments should focus on data assets.
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