AI at NCSL Summit, AI Enactments in IL & More

AI Big Issue at NCSL Summit

Artificial intelligence was a major focus of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ 2024 Summit in Louisville last week, with 10 sessions devoted to various aspects of the issue. And while 2024 seemed like the year of AI in state legislatures, particularly with the passage of first-in-the-nation comprehensive AI legislation in Colorado (SB 205), it may just be a preview of what’s to come in 2025.

Pluribus News Staff Writer Austin Jenkins, who attended the summit, said he thinks some version of Colorado’s groundbreaking AI legislation may be “in the works” in “a dozen more states in 2025.” He said lawmakers are talking with each other in red states and blue states, formally and informally, and they’re trying to avoid repeating the mistakes of the data privacy wars by being more coordinated.

He also said, “California may still very well go its own way, and then you may have a bunch of other states doing something else, so I’m not sure it’s going to look that different in the end.” But he added: “the thing that I think is so interesting is that legislators are communicating across state lines and across party lines about this. They may not write the same bills but they’re saying let’s be smart about this because if you are doing a patchwork of laws, it probably makes sense to have some agreement about like just what is the definition of AI.” (PLURIBUS NEWS, NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)

IL Gov Signs Multiple AI Bills

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed multiple bills dealing with artificial intelligence. They include a measure protecting employees from AI-related discrimination in the workplace and requiring transparency about the use of AI in employment-related decision-making (HB 3773) and a measure protecting performers from the wrongful use of digital replicas of their voices (HB 4762). (CENTER SQUARE)

More Kid’s Data Privacy Legislation Coming in 2025

Minnesota Rep. Kristin Bahner (D) said she will sponsor children’s online safety legislation again next year and lawmakers in a half-dozen other states may do the same. Legislation inspired by the Age-Appropriate Design Code law passed in California in 2022 came up short last year in Minnesota, as well as Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico and South Carolina. But a version of the law was enacted this year in Maryland (HB 603). (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)

—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK

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