AUSTIN, Texas — A recent report from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative policy group, offers policy proposals to lawmakers to combat malicious AI actors.
“The use of these nefarious tools can have life-altering consequences and potentially life-or-death consequences for even a small number of companies,” said David Dunmoyer, campaign director at the Public Policy Foundation of Texas. “I can see that there is a gender,” he said. .
McAllen state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa has pre-filed two bills, SB441 and SB442, targeting the creation and sharing of blatant deepfake images. One establishes civil liability for victims, and the other creates criminal penalties for those who publish sexually explicit images.
“As technology advances, we need to hold it accountable and responsible, and in some cases we need governments to step in and act as guardrails,” Hinojosa said. .
Although his bill addresses only a small portion of emerging technologies, Hinojosa touts it as a bipartisan effort.
With a month left in Congress, 14 bills related to artificial intelligence have been prefiled, and more are expected to be introduced.
The House Committee on AI and Emerging Technologies, chaired by Rep. Keller Giovanni Capriglione, held an interim meeting with hundreds of AI industry stakeholders.
“What we’re looking at is misinformation, disinformation. We’re looking at potential uses for deepfakes, election interference, and revenge porn. So there’s a dark side to the use of this technology. ,” Capriglione said.
Mr. Capriglione drafted a 40-page bill that would create various requirements for AI developers, adopters, and distributors.
“We don’t want to limit companies from being innovative or the new and important ways they can use artificial intelligence. But first and foremost, we don’t want to limit companies from being innovative or using artificial intelligence in new and important ways. We have to make sure there are guardrails to protect everyone,” Capriglione said.
“This will be one of, if not the defining bill of the next Congress,” Dunmoyer said.
Dunmoyer predicts Capriglione’s bill will be the defining bill of the 89th Congress, and perhaps the defining bill of the country. Dunmoyer believes Texas will create a framework to legislate artificial intelligence.
“We have the technology talent, we have the venture capital, we have great institutions that California does to some extent. What’s unique is that we embrace the Texas values that humanity should be served by technology rather than the other way around. That’s what I have,” he said.
Capriglione hopes the bill will be introduced by the new year.
