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Kentucky legislature AI Task Force co-chair discusses artificial intelligence's evolving challenges

State Rep. Josh Bray (R-Mt. Vernon) is co-chair of the General Assembly's Artificial Intelligence Task Force.
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State Rep. Josh Bray (R-Mt. Vernon) is co-chair of the General Assembly's Artificial Intelligence Task Force.

The General Assembly’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force held its last meeting of the year, but the group’s co-chair says the state legislature’s study of AI is just beginning. State Representative Josh Bray of Mount Vernon said one of their most important and difficult challenges has been defining artificial intelligence.

“We've had some form of AI for years, like predictive text, spell check, stuff like that. Very, very basic, very rudimentary. And then now we're starting to get in these large language models to where it can start generating content, whether that's images, video.”

During the AI Task Force’s meetings, they heard from representatives of organizations ranging from tech companies to the state Attorney General’s office. Bray said when it comes to government, the criminal justice system and other sectors, people must not relinquish decision-making control.

“We don't want artificial intelligence making a decision based on, you know, is this person eligible for, let's say, government benefits, and then it deciding that, no, it's not – that needs to be a human to do that.”

Bray said another example of how AI could be misused came from the AG’s office – the possibility of AI-generated images and videos leading to wrongful convictions.

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John McGary is a Lexington native and Navy veteran with three decades of radio, television and newspaper experience.
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