SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers try to maintain up with speedy developments in Synthetic Intelligence by advancing SB149 which might create an AI lab for innovators and specialists to check new tech. And on the similar time, the lab would educate state officers about regulating synthetic intelligence.

These behind the Synthetic Intelligence Amendments invoice have three targets in thoughts — defending the general public, fostering innovation, and studying.

Margaret Busse, the chief director of the Utah Division of Commerce, mentioned this is a chance to do with AI what was not executed with social media. 

Specifically, “we maintain our eyes on what’s occurring in AI and never, type of, let the applied sciences run away like occurred in social media after which it will invite related AI firms or stakeholders — specialists to return and check out proposed guardrails that we’d take into account placing in,” Busse mentioned.

If it turns into legislation, the invoice would make Utah the primary state with an AI lab of this type.

SB149 handed the total Home unanimously.

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