Thirty states, along with the District of Columbia, are either considering or have passed laws that regulate how artificial systems are designed and used, and that patchwork of legislation is causing issues for businesses attempting to comply.
Proposed or passed legislation runs the gamut from protecting children to data transparency to reducing bias. For example, a law being debated in Utah would require some businesses to disclose if customers are interacting with their products without using a human.
Laws are being passed independently in the states due to a lack of federal regulation, unlike in other countries such as the European Union, which adopted sweeping AI legislation earlier this year. Because the state laws, even when they look similar, small differences can be challenging when it comes to compliance for a business.
“It’s really just a mess for business,” said Goli Mahdavi, a lawyer with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. “It’s just a lot of uncertainty.”
