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One Pitfall Avoided

I’m not entirely sure what this proposed law would mean in practice: existing data at the Department of Buildings will be examined to identify which buildings are considered to be high risk, and the usual DoB actions – violations, etc. – will start from there. It all depends on what data is mined, what weights are given to different forms of violation, and so on. The description sounds good, but I’m not enough of a fortune-teller to say what the outcome will be.

The best news is that the words “artificial intelligence” appear nowhere in the bill or the article, so at the buzzword of the year was avoided.

A completely different type of inspection, of steel work during the Empire State Building construction:

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