Illinois state Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva | BlueRoomStream
By Kevin Bessler | The Center Square
The state of Illinois is entering into the world of artificial intelligence with possible regulations of the technology.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday to address emerging issues in the AI industry.
State Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, D-Glenview, said lawmakers should not take the same approach with AI as they did with social media.
“Lawmakers decided to take a largely hands-off approach to regulation,” Gong-Gershowitz said. “We’ve seen the tangled web of societal ills that approach [that] was caused due to a lack of regulatory action.”
Gong-Gershowitz sponsored a measure to crack down on the abusive and harmful use of digital forgeries, also known as deepfakes. The law would create a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly distributes, creates or solicits a digital forgery of another individual without their consent and for the purposes of harassing, extorting, threatening or causing harm to the falsely depicted individual.
The Biden administration this week announced executive actions to try to establish oversight of the AI sector, including setting new standards for safety tests for AI products.
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