How Stanford's RegLab Is Fixing Broken City Services with AI

Podcast: What the AI?! · Upstart

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

Stanford’s RegLab is showing how AI can fix real-world city services without replacing human civil servants. In this second episode of Working Theory, Jeff Keltner sits down with Derek Ouyang, Research Director at Stanford’s RegLab (Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab). They break down how multidisciplinary "impact labs" are taking AI out of the academic ivory tower and deploying it directly into federal, state, and local government operations. Derek reveals how computer vision models analyze Google Street View imagery to eliminate pothole reporting inequities in San Diego and evaluate satellite data to discover 3 to 4 unpermitted housing units for...