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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...

A group of 18 state attorneys general said on Monday they backed Montana's effort to ban Chinese-owned short video app TikTok, urging a US judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the Jan. 1 effective date. The state attorneys general led by Virginia and including Georgia, Alaska, Utah, Indiana, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and South Dakota said the suits from TikTok and users should be rejected "because TikTok intentionally engages in deceptive business practices which induce individuals to share sensitive personal information that can be easily accessed by the Chinese Communist Party and because TikTok’s platform harms children in Montana." TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday, and filed a suit in May seeking to block the first-of-its-kind US  state ban on several grounds, arguing it violates the First Amendment free speech rights of the company and users. A hearing on Tik...

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: State agencies in Louisiana and West Virginia on Monday became the latest to ban the use of the popular social media service TikTok on government-managed devices over concern that China could use it to track Americans and censor content. Some 19 of the 50 US  states have now at least partially blocked access on government computers to TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. Most of the restrictions came within the past two weeks. Some members of Congress last week proposed a nationwide ban, which would follow countries such as India that have already prohibited its use. Jamf Holding Corp, which sells software to organizations to enable filtering and security measures on iPhones and other Apple devices, said its government customers have increasingly blocked access to TikTok since the middle of this year. About 65% of attempted connections to TikTok have been blocked this month on devices managed by Jamf’s public sector customer...