Government heads joined cybersecurity experts at City & State’s 2025 Digital Summit Wednesday, a daylong event that featured discussions about progress made in rolling out artificial intelligence and digital services, the vulnerabilities of New York’s infrastructure, as well as its resilience to withstand cyber attacks.
Addressing attendees at the event held at Hebrew Union College in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, keynote speaker Dru Rai, the state’s chief information officer, noted progress made in artificial intelligence and used the occasion to announce that the state had hired its first chief AI officer, Shreya Amin. Formerly the chief data and AI scientist at health tech company Wellist, Amin will lead the state’s efforts to leverage AI’s benefits while minimizing its risks, the state Office of Information Technology Services later added. Rai also said on Wednesday that state agencies are currently investing in simpler generative AI models to automate tasks.
Rai, who serves as the director of the state’s Office of Information Technology Services, oversees the department’s delivery of IT services to more than 57 executive agencies and commissions – one of the largest consolidated state-level organizations…