How AI Is Transforming Government: RAG, AI Agents & the Future of Policymaking | Alaa Moussawi

Can artificial intelligence help governments make better policy without actually making policy? Recorded live at AI4 2026 in Las Vegas, Sanjay Puri speaks with Alaa Moussawi, Chief Data Scientist at the New York City Council, about how data science, open-source AI, RAG, and AI agents are being used to make government more evidence-driven and efficient. Alaa explains how his team uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to help attorneys and policy analysts search thousands of legal memos, retrieve relevant precedents, and conduct legislative research in seconds—while keeping humans responsibl