AI pervades everyday life with almost no oversight. States scramble to catch up

By JESSE BEDAYN
Associated Press/Report for America

DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swings to regulate bias in artificial intelligence. As AI has quietly spread through everyday life, filtering job resumes, rental apartment and home loan applications, studies and lawsuits have found they can discriminate based on race, gender or more. In the absence of federal regulation, the state bills would require transparency from companies that use AI to make consequential decisions for Americans, including how AI figures into the determinations and the risk of discrimination in its assessments. Tech industry groups have supported some of these proposals, but so far states are struggling to get the regulations signed into law.