Montana lawmakers are considering a small number of bills, including those that establish the right to calculate the law, as well as policy frameworks for businesses to use artificial intelligence to calculate numbers and operate data centers.
Billings Republican Sen. Daniel Zornikov, sponsors Sen. Sen. 212, spoke about it in front of the family’s business and labor on Wednesday, March 19th.
“You have the right to calculate, and if you have restrictions within the laws of these frameworks, if you can put them in the code correctly, hopefully, that’s what you have restrictions,” Zorkinov said.
He said restrictions could apply to misuse of AI technology, including behaviours that deceive or fraudulently surviving the public and dangerous minors. The bill also sets up mechanisms that will bring critical AI systems back to human control in the event of an emergency, such as cyberattacks.
“So you have the right to do this except for these things that we are trying to make clear,” Zornikov said.
He said the right to calculate the law and its guardrails work well alongside other laws currently being considered to regulate artificial intelligence.
Braxton Mitchell, Republican representative of Columbia Falls, aims to protect individual privacy and other rights by setting standards for the use of artificial intelligence by government agencies such as law enforcement.
Jill Koenor, Democratic leader of East Helena, has since sponsored two bills. One is to limit digital content that can mimic a person’s appearance and voice without the consent of “deepfakes” or the other is to criminalize the unauthorized creation and misuse of sexually explicit images produced by substance or AI. Both her bills are scheduled for a hearing on April 1st.
Colstrip’s president Gary Parry sponsors a proposal to study the impact between AI and Congress sessions. House joint resolution 4 is scheduled to be heard on Tuesday in Senate energy technology and federal relations.
