Monthly Archives: July 2024

Oklahoma Legislature is considering HB3594 that protects the right to mine block chain at home free from licenses, no additional taxes on cryptocurrency transactions, no capital gains on crypto currency in Oklahoma, and allows for cryptocurrency as a form of payment for goods and services in the state.

George Slover, senior counsel for competition policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, says that surveillance pricing, or bespoke pricing, ” inverts, or you might say perverts, the assumptions at the very foundation of the justification for the free market.” Governing | What Is ‘Surveillance Pricing’ and Is It Causing Increased Prices?

Did you know that online retailers have the ability to cull data and determine a personalize price for you based on how much their algorithm thinks you will pay for an item? Yep, hello surveillance pricing. An FTC order this week is looking into the situation, and is expected to take action with states are […]

Utah created an AI Office this year when it enacted SB 149 (UT | 2024). Utah’s AI Office is housed inside the state’s Department of Commerce. The state has a lack of accessible mental health care providers. The office will work to create a framework for what AI chatbots are and are not allowed to […]

Los Angeles School district has an AI project that is said to allow for chat functions in 100 languages. The goal of the AI chatbot is  to improve student English and math proficiency, attendance, and graduation rates while improving communication between students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Sound too good to be true? Maybe. The AI chat messaging […]

We’ve been talking about how quantum computing is the next big thing that is going to occupy policymakers time. To that end, a group of MIT researchers partnered with Accenture to develop an AI  decision-making toolkit. “The framework asks leaders to consider two conditions: feasibility (meaning whether a quantum computer exists that is sufficiently powerful to […]

Politico calls California State Senator  Thomas Umberg,  California’a Chief AI Gatekeeper. Policy issues that are at the forefront for the AI Gatekeeper: developing clear definitions for terms like “artificial intelligence,” “transparency,” “bias” and “privacy” to craft effective policies; ensuring that policymakers have “extensive consultation with experts across various sectors to ensure regulations are well-informed and effective;” […]

 California is using AI enabled cameras to detect wildfires before the 911 wildfire calls begin. California uses a system of cameras to monitor backcountry land 24 hours a day. The cameras are part of an “interlinked technology network that is redefining the scope of fire prediction, prevention and response.” According to Science.org wildfires have tripled in frequency and […]