New York must catch up to AI: Hochul and Mamdani have to stay ahead of thinking computers
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NY DAILY NEWS — Gov. Hochul has signed the RAISE Act into law, joining California as the only states establishing transparency requirements for frontier AI developers. Her Empire AI initiative is aiming to build one of the most powerful academic AI supercomputers in the nation. And she just announced a new commission to study the effects of AI on the economy.
In the Legislature the proposed Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act would fund AI education in public schools, community colleges, and nonprofits statewide. These are important steps.
But a program that reaches classrooms over the coming years will not help the millions of New Yorkers worried right now about whether AI will take their jobs, flood elections with misinformation, or be used in ways that affect their civil liberties without their knowledge.
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