The Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology, and Digital Innovation Technologies discussed the need for blockchain between two senators. Draft Artificial Intelligence Bill. The main points of the bill are: Similar efforts Other states are seeking to limit or regulate the use of AI, large-scale language models, and other similar automated systems to make decisions that could deprive or unreasonably deny rights without human input.
The bill would restrict these systems from making major decisions on their own and require agencies to record which employees are using these automated systems.
In drafting the bill, the Legislature’s bipartisan staff said it considered several similar bills. new jersey, colorado and illinois.
The Wyoming version focuses on “consequential decisions,” which are defined as decisions that affect the outcome of “personal rights, interests, and obligations established by law.” The bill also provides a formal definition of an artificial intelligence system, which refers to “any machine-based system that can affect a physical or virtual environment that infers how to produce an output from the inputs it receives.”
The only members of the committee were Sen. Tara Nethercott (R-Cheyenne) and Sen. Chris Rothfuss (D-Laramie). talk about the billbecause they differed widely on its necessity.
Rothfuss supported the bill, saying other states are already being denied the benefits of AI systems. Recent examples include: Lawsuit against UnitedHealth Allegedly using flawed AI to deny medically necessary coverage to elderly patients. In Washington state, we reported that thousands of Medicare customers may soon have their claims denied by AI. Report by KUOW.
Stating that AI is still in its “early days,” the senator from Laramie felt it was best to get ahead of this trend. While he made it clear that the bill would not regulate how government agencies deploy AI, he argued that requiring “a human as the last step” is a step in the right direction.
“[The bill is] “We’re trying to put humans in control of important government decisions,” Rothfuss said.
Mr Nethercott claimed the bill was “problematically probing”. She argued that the use of any technology does not cover up wrongdoing, and that responsibility ultimately rests with the government.
“Regardless of the process that a government agency or other agency uses to make a decision, a company or agency cannot be exempt from liability because of the process it uses to make a decision,” she said. “The Department of Family Services would grant or deny these benefits regardless of whether they used AI as a decision-making process.”
Nethercott said the bill would fail to quell fears surrounding the technology and that it would be more effective to simply ban governments from using AI or create a special appeals process for wrongdoing caused by the technology.
Rothfuss insisted he wanted to stop the problem before a remedy was needed.
“This is not a liability issue because these are personal interests. So, yes, if we take it to court, it will be resolved,” Rothfuss said. “But what we’ve seen in other states is… there’s an automated process. Yesterday you were eligible, now you’re not eligible. It’s just the AI saying that, no human being looked into it.”
Rothfuss added that the best practice in the AI industry is to look at the end stages that may be consequential or detrimental in nature.
Rothfuss also rejected the idea that the bill would regulate AI. Instead, he said, human eyes will be required at certain decision points.
Mr Nethercott objected, pointing to the definition section of the bill.
“We are defining artificial intelligence. It has consequences that apply both to government agencies and across artificial intelligence. We have defined artificial intelligence systems. This is an important action,” Nethercott said.
While Rothfuss and Nethercott agreed on certain concepts, such as the problem of “hallucinations” with AI, senators did not find much common ground on the bill.
The committee postponed the bill and planned to consider it at another time. The Task Force on Blockchain, Financial Technology, and Digital Innovation Technologies will meet again on September 28 at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
