Introduction to the Special Issue on ChatGPT and other Generative AI Commentaries: AI Augmentation in Government 4.0

This special issue is for providing a forum for rapid sharing of current and potential transformations and disruptions that may be enabled by GenAI in the government domain. The main objectives of the Special Issue are: to gauge the potential impact of powerful GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilot, and MetaAI, for the future government and democracy, including negative and positive effects; to assess the role of the Government in the face of proliferation of GenAI tools as a potential facilitator of innovations towards a better society or as regulator to harness the new generation of AI and to mitigate risks; and lastly, to envision how the public sector workplace may need to adapt to the changes, identifying top priority requirements and strategies for the new governing models.