(Texas Scorecard) – The Texas Public Coverage Basis hosted a discussion about the way forward for accountable Artificial Intelligence coverage.
Zach Whiting, coverage director at TPPF and a Senior Fellow at Higher Tech for Tomorrow, began off the dialogue by explaining that Texas shouldn’t wait for Congress to take motion, however ought to lead in crafting accountable and human-centric AI coverage.
“A lot of at this time’s dialog will revolve round the query of, how will we responsibly, transparently, and successfully harness the energy of AI in addition to decrease any irreparable harms that will come from AI,” mentioned Whiting.
But, panelist and State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R-Southlake) mentioned it’s exhausting to jot down laws regarding AI that the public and the tech corporations will each get on board with. In different phrases, laws that doesn’t create overburdening regulation for companies however nonetheless protects a person’s privateness.
“And as you may think about, it’s exhausting to give you a invoice that everyone likes, proper? The pink strains on what individuals need typically contradict with each other,” mentioned Capriglione.
Capriglione added that the final purpose is to create a mannequin that different Republican states can observe.
David Dunmoyer, the marketing campaign director for Higher Tech for Tomorrow and co-author of a just lately launched research paper on AI coverage, additional defined, “Texas has the strongest knowledge privateness legislation in the nation, and we’re going to work to make sure that we have now the strongest, most pro-innovation, pro-consumer AI invoice in the nation, in Texas too.”
His paper explains that crafting an AI measure is not any small process because it requires way more than simply rules. It requires nice element in language precision and definitions all whereas ensuring that the constructing blocks of human dignity, transparency, privateness, and accountability are included.
“Texas has the legislative management and considerate interim and stakeholder processes to be a nationwide chief in crafting sound coverage options that may function a mannequin for sister states—and maybe even Congress and the remainder of the world—to observe,” the paper states.
Capriglione has not but filed a measure on AI coverage, telling the viewers it’s nonetheless in the strategy of being drafted.
Texas’ 89th Legislative Session begins January 14, 2025 and ends June 2, 2025.