Glossary · entry 02 / 12
Local AI
Local AI is artificial intelligence that runs on the owner's own computers instead of sending data to an outside company's servers. It gives the help of modern AI without sending records out to be stored or used for training.
Most AI assistants work by sending whatever you type across the internet to the company that runs the model. For a government handling enrollment files, court cases, and member finances, that is a copy of sovereign records leaving the building with every question.
Local AI keeps the model itself on your hardware. It can read a long filing, draft a first version of a notice, or check a record for completeness, and every word of that work stays on the machine it started on.
Because the model is yours to run, it works offline and there is no per-use bill that grows with adoption.