Hamlet founder and CEO Sunil Rajaraman, a Saratoga native, has contracted with the city of Saratoga to use Hamlet’s AI model to translate the content of city documents and meeting recordings into articles that are linked to Saratoga’s newsletter. In an effort to better connect with its residents, the city of Saratoga is incorporating artificial intelligence into its operations.
Hamlet founder Sunil Rajaraman said the eight-person company, which was founded just last year, is working on expanding its operations to offer the same services to other Bay Area cities. The company’s website is linked in the emails that the city of Saratoga sends to residents who signed up to receive alerts when the city posts council meeting agendas or meeting notices.
While the company’s initial goal was to summarize government documents and meetings for Bay Area cities that may not have their own local newspapers, he added, the AI model they use is not quite sophisticated enough to do so. Instead, the company is working on “going deeper” in a smaller number of cities.
“Ultimately, it ends up being a timesaver for governments that work with us so that they don’t have to field mundane or inflammatory questions that might come from Nextdoor,” he said.After Walnut Creek police arrested an AI employee in online child sex sting, he allegedly claimed he thought it was a botI told Google’s Gemini AI not to talk to my kid. These conversations followed.
Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University, said the partnership between the company and the city of Saratoga has the potential to improve transparency within local government.