Former Vice Mayor Bill Cleveland is not the most tech-savvy person, but he says he’s eager to bring his perspective in law enforcement and city legislating to the new AI Task Force .
Cleveland, who emphasized that he is “still learning about AI”, is one of ten members of a new task force assembled by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to tackle policy questions about artificial intelligence.
Cleveland is a Vietnam veteran and worked in the Capitol Police. Perhaps most relevant for the appointment, though, is that Cleveland served on the Alexandria City Council for 15 years as a Republican , becoming vice mayor in the 1991 and 2000 elections before losing a mayoral race to Bill Euille in 2003, then losing subsequent sheriff and city council elections in 2005 and 2007. In 2016 he was inducted as a Living Legend of Alexandria .
Cleveland has maintained close ties to Republican leadership, from meetings with Donald Trump to prior appointments from Youngkin to boards like the Virginia African American Advisory Board .