First major attempts to regulate AI face headwinds from all sides
- Artificial intelligence is helping decide which Americans get the job interview, the apartment, even medical care, but the first major proposals to rein in bias in AI decision making are facing headwinds from every direction.
- Lawmakers working on these bills, in states including Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, came together Thursday to argue the case for their proposals as civil rights-oriented groups and the industry play tug-of-war with core components of the legislation.
- Organizations including labor unions and consumer advocacy groups are pulling for more transparency from companies and greater legal recourse for citizens to sue over AI discrimination.
- The industry is offering tentative support but digging in its heels over those accountability measures.
- The group of bipartisan lawmakers caught in the middle — including those from Alaska, Georgia and Virginia — has been working on AI legislation together in the face of federal inaction.
