Can artificial intelligence help government be more efficient? Reduce DMV wait times? Analyze repair needs for infrastructure like bridges and dams? Protect property by using “sacrificial” drones to redirect lightning strikes?

Those were just some of the AI applications explored during the second Artificial Intelligence Expo, hosted by the state of Tennessee’s Strategic Technology Solutions division on Oct. 1.

About 500 state employees from nearly two-dozen agencies gathered at the Tennessee Tower for the conference to explore uses for emerging AI technologies.

"We're just scratching the surface of what we can do with AI," Jim Bryson, Tennessee Finance and Administration commissioner , told The Tennessean. "One of the things that we're really excited about is how AI can make the citizen

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