As artificial intelligence technology continues to grow, Kentucky leaders are looking at strategies for continued oversight and the possibility of enacting new legislation to address artificial intelligence technology.
With lawmakers scheduled to return to Frankfort for the next 2025 legislative session, scheduled to begin on January 7, 2025, the AI Task Force recently adopted what could be described as a list of legislative priorities.
Sen. Jex Williams (R-Verona) is a member of the 11-member task force.
“The federal government is the best place to really deal effectively with AI,” he says. “But there are other areas that we as a state need to agree we can work on right now.”
Since July, the task force has met several times on an interim basis and heard testimony from leaders representing multiple state agencies and Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
“Throughout the past year, it has become more and more pervasive in our lives,” said Nicholas Caporusso, an associate professor of computing and analysis at NKU. “It’s important to have people at the government level thinking about the opportunities and risks of AI.”
The task force adopted the following 11 recommendations:
Examining legislation that provides policy standards for Kentucky’s use of Al. This includes a decision-making framework for ethical AI use, business cases for use, approval processes for use, disclosure during use, and third-party mitigation. – Avoids party risks in use and ensures data privacy for Kentuckians. We urge the federal government to take immediate action on regulating AI. Directs Legislative Research Committee (LRC) staff to provide a definition of AI for legislative purposes in Kentucky. Consider legislation that promotes and protects election integrity in Kentucky by encouraging the responsible use of Al in connection with elections and election processes. The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), in partnership with the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), has partnered with the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) to ensure that employer-provided AI-related educational opportunities and initiatives improve postsecondary outcomes and college degrees. Encourage them to conduct research on how this is reflected. We encourage the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office to examine current healthcare regulations to determine whether sufficient guidelines are in place to protect patients from potential HIPAA violations. Encourages the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office to review personal likeness laws and continue to work with the General Assembly on issues arising from advances in aluminum. Consider allowing a one-time allocation of funds to the Center that Kentucky agencies can use to promote responsible research, development, and advancement in Al. Consider legislation that promotes responsible use of Al by requiring certain disclosures when communicating with Al chatbots. Requires all infrastructure providers to implement best practices to ensure data integrity, protect proprietary and confidential information, ensure accountability for acceptable use of Al products, and instill ethical and moral guidelines. Encourage the development of long-term Al governance models that create a framework. . Encourages the General Assembly to continue supporting policies that ensure Kentucky’s electric utilities have the adequate generation and infrastructure necessary to meet growing energy demands.
Emerging technologies come in all forms, Williams said, so it’s important to create a statewide definition of AI so that lawmakers can enact laws surrounding it. However, we are not excluded as individuals from that chain. ”
“It’s not going away. We’re incorporating it more and more into our lives whether we want to or not,” Caporusso said. “We use systems that incorporate AI, and we leverage AI to improve the way we work and live. As with any type of technology, there are clearly many potential harms to AI. there is.”
A list of recommendations was sent to the LRC, which serves as the administrative and research arm of the Kentucky General Assembly.
This article originally appeared on WCPO.com.
