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In 2026, California became the first US state to strike a deal giving every state agency, plus any city or county that opts in, discounted access to a major AI company's chatbot.
California's arrangement was notable as the largest state government AI deployment in US history, giving every state agency, plus any city or county that opts in, discounted access to a major AI company's chatbot through a shared state technology portal, representing the broadest rollout of a commercial AI assistant across any US state government to date.
The deal did not require residents to pay any new tax, and it certainly did not ban AI use in state government; both of those describe the opposite of what actually happened, since the whole point was to expand access, not restrict or tax it.
Government agencies are increasingly experimenting with AI tools for tasks like drafting documents, answering resident questions, and processing paperwork faster, and a deal covering an entire state's government at once is a scale most previous rollouts hadn't reached.
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