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Monday 7 august 2023
Artificial intelligence is gaining state lawmakers’ attention, and they

have a lot of questions

By Susan Haigh do, New York, Virginia, Min- ing, through a lawsuit, the
Associated Press nesota and elsewhere that “secret computerized al-
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — includes gorithms” Idaho was us-
As state lawmakers rush to Overall, at least 25 states, ing to assess people with
get a handle on fast-evolv- Puerto Rico and the District developmental disabilities
ing artificial intelligence of Columbia introduced for federally funded health
technology, they’re often artificial intelligence bills care services. The auto-
focusing first on their own this year. As of late July, 14 mated system, he said in
state governments before states and Puerto Rico had written testimony, included
imposing restrictions on the adopted resolutions or en- corrupt data that relied on
private sector. acted legislation, accord- inputs the state hadn’t vali-
Legislators are seeking ing to the National Confer- dated.
ways to protect constitu- ence of State Legislatures. AI can be shorthand for
ents from discrimination The list doesn’t include many different technolo-
and other harms while not bills focused on specific AI The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a gies, ranging from algo-
hindering cutting-edge ad- technologies, such as fa- computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, rithms recommending
vancements in medicine, cial recognition or autono- 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) what to watch next on Net-
science, business, educa- mous cars, something NCSL flix to generative AI systems
tion and more. is tracking separately. doing what,” said Heather already being used to as- such as ChatGPT that can
Connecticut plans to inven- Legislatures in Texas, North Morton, a legislative analy- sign students to magnet aid in writing or create new
tory all of its government Dakota, West Virginia and sist at NCSL who tracks arti- schools, set bail and dis- images or other media. The
systems using artificial intel- Puerto Rico have created ficial intelligence, cyberse- tribute welfare benefits, surge of commercial invest-
ligence by the end of 2023, advisory bodies to study curity, privacy and internet among other tasks. Howev- ment in generative AI tools
posting the information on- and monitor AI systems issues in state legislatures. er, details of the algorithms has generated public fasci-
line. And starting next year, their respective state agen- “That is something that the are mostly unknown to the nation and concerns about
state officials must regularly cies are using, while Louisi- states are trying to figure public. their ability to trick people
review these systems to en- ana formed a new tech- out within their own state AI technology, the group and spread disinformation,
sure they won’t lead to un- nology and cyber security borders.” said, “has spread through- among other dangers.
lawful discrimination. committee to study AI’s im- Connecticut’s new law, out Connecticut’s govern- Some states haven’t at-
Maroney, a Democrat who pact on state operations, which requires AI systems ment rapidly and largely tempted to tackle the issue
has become a go-to AI au- procurement and policy. used by state agencies to unchecked, a develop- yet. In Hawaii, state Sen.
thority in the General As- Other states took a similar be regularly scrutinized for ment that’s not unique to Chris Lee, a Democrat, said
sembly, said Connecticut approach last year. possible unlawful discrimi- this state.” lawmakers didn’t pass any
lawmakers will likely focus Lawmakers want to know nation, comes after an in- Richard Eppink, legal direc- legislation this year govern-
on private industry next “Who’s using it? How are vestigation by the Media tor of the American Civil ing AI “simply because I
year. He plans to work this you using it? Just gather- Freedom and Information Liberties Union of Idaho, think at the time, we didn’t
fall on model AI legislation ing that data to figure out Access Clinic at Yale Law testified before Congress know what to do.”q
with lawmakers in Colora- what’s out there, who’s School determined AI is in May about discover-

4 new offshore wind power projects proposed for New Jersey Shore;

2 would be far out to sea

By Wayne Parry permission to build a wind Atlantic City and Ocean leading clean energy de-
Associated Press farm in the waters off Long City shorelines to be seen velopment, training and
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Beach Island. Their joint by beachgoers, this project manufacturing hub.” He
— Wind power developers venture is called Commu- would be built 37 miles (59 said his company is the
proposed four new projects nity Offshore Wind, and it kilometers) offshore and second-largest wind power
off the New Jersey Shore on aims to generate enough would not be visible from developer globally, follow-
Friday, a surge that would electricity to power 500,000 the shore, said Doug Per- ing Danish wind developer
more than double the num- homes. kins, president and project Orsted.
ber of wind farms built off its Unlike other projects that director of Community Off- Community Offshore said
coast if they are approved have drawn intense op- shore Wind. it has not yet determined
by regulators. Land-based windmills in position from homeown- He said the project has how many wind turbines
At least two of them are Atlantic City turn on July 20, ers in part because they “the potential to transform would be built as part of
more than twice as far 2023. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) are close enough to the New Jersey into a nation- the project.
out to sea than others that The second bid was sub-
have drawn the ire of resi- the state races to become mitted by Chicago-based
dents who don’t want to the East Coast capital of Invenergy and New York-
see windmills on the hori- the fast-growing offshore based energyRE for a proj-
zon. These two would not wind industry. ect 40 miles (64 kilome-
be visible from the beach, In the first project to be ters) off Long Beach Island
the companies proposing made public Friday by called Leading Light Wind.
them say. the companies proposing It would consist of up to 100
They would join three wind it, Essen, Germany-based turbines, enough to power
farms already approved by RWE and New York-based 1 million homes.q
New Jersey regulators as National Grid applied for