launched the country’s most ambitious plays to become national models for regulating artificial intelligence.
“It was just premature for Connecticut to jump way ahead of this,” Lamont said in an interview. “We’ve got to let the entrepreneurs have a little room to run so we see where this can take us, and be prepared when we have to rein something in.”regulating the state government’s use of AI. He’s also a vice chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ working group on AI and privacy, and convened an AI working group with more than 100 lawmakers from more than two dozen states.
“A comprehensive regulatory approach at the state level is fundamentally the wrong direction to go on AI policy,” Doug Johnson, vice president of emerging technology at CTA, told POLITICO. Matt Scherer, senior policy counsel for workers’ rights and technology at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said consumer groups scrambled to respond after Rodriguez introduced the legislation in April, with the legislative deadline weeks away in May. He said lawmakers tightened some loopholes that Connecticut had left open.