Every corner Kentucky’s state government must identify uses for artificial intelligence (AI) under a new law signed by Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday.
Senate Bill 4, proposed by state Republicans and passed with Democrats’ support, directs every “department, agency and administrative body” deliver a report to the Commonwealth Office of Technology “examining and identifying potential use cases” for artificial intelligence systems, including ones labeled high-risk.
It also requires a benefits and risks assessment in that report.
Professor Roman Yampolskiy studies AI safety and security at the University of Louisville.
“While everyone else is developing more capable systems, I make sure they behave,” he said. “What was really science fiction five years ago is now routinely done.”
With a simple prompt, AI like ChatGPT can write computer code. Generative AI systems can create videos and images from nothing. AI’s creative power extends to decisions too.
Under the new law, the Office of Technology is now responsible for setting AI standards through a committee.
For example, ensuring AI has human overrides and that the AI self-documents so its decisions can be reviewed. However, Yampolskiy says AI struggles with that the more complicated its decisions are.
“There is not a well-established way for showing [its] work,” he said. “We don’t know how to explain what a system is doing. If it did explain all that work, it wouldn’t be able to comprehend it.”
Also included in the law—privacy protections limiting government AI to only use “necessary” data and prohibiting “unrestricted access to personal data.”
Yampolskiy worries about the advancement of the technology—that it might eclipse human intelligence and be given too much control. He calls it superintelligence.
“We are told that, within a year or two, we’re gonna have systems at human level or beyond,” he said, adding that the law “doesn’t really address challenges that this system will bring.”
However, the law provides an appeal process for AI decisions.
Outside of state government, the law gives candidates the ability to sue over manipulations to their image or voice in campaign advertisements in the 45-day period leading up to an election.
The bill became law immediately when the governor signed it due to an emergency clause. Most other bills take effect after the end of a legislative session.
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