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While artificial intelligence made headlines with ChatGPT, behind the scenes, the technology has quietly pervaded everyday life — screening job resumes, rental apartment applications, and even determining medical care in some cases. While a number of AI systems have been found to discriminate, tipping the scales in favor of certain races, genders or incomes, there’s scant government oversight. Lawmakers in at least seven state s are taking big legislative swings to regulate bias in artificial intelligence, filling a void left by Congress’ inaction. These proposals are some of the first steps in a decades-long discussion over balancing the benefits of this nebulous new Technology with the widely documented risks. “AI does in fact affect every part of your life whether you know it or not,” said Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a Brown University professor who co-authored the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. “Now, you wouldn’t care if they all worked fine...

Tamara Chuang | Business/Technology Reporter Quick links : Colorado’s C+ grade | Neural data privacy | More privacy bills | Starbucks union wins again Colorado has the second strongest law in the land that protects consumer privacy and data, according to a new report card from a consumer public interest group. But the state also scored a mere C+ for its efforts. Though it has initiated consumer-friendly rules — such as one that will let Coloradans press a button to opt out of having their personal data collected and sold online starting in July — the state’s protections could be much stronger, said R.J. Cross, director of the Don’t Sell My Data campaign for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a progressive advocacy group based in Denver. Most of the 14 states with privacy laws on the books received a D or F rating. As for the other 36 states with no laws? She calls them “incomplete.” Since 2018 44 states have considered comprehensiv...