Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb said the city will soon have a strategy to guide its use of artificial intelligence, including training and education for all city employees.

"Over the next few months, we will be launching an enterprise-wide AI strategy for all 8,000 of our employees at City Hall ... to really train and educate City Hall employees on how to use AI and what it means for how we deliver basic city services," Bibb said at a Thursday speech at FutureLAND, an annual AI Summit hosted at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art.

Bibb, who campaigned on a promise to modernize City Hall, said that work begins with securing city systems after a ransomware attack took down operations for weeks last summer.

"We have to crawl before we walk," Bibb said. "And the reason why I say that is

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