The Georgia Senate Artificial Intelligence Study Committee is set to meet Wednesday at Georgia Tech to explore the extent Georgia lawmakers should promote policies to attract AI business and research and how much they should focus on preventing pitfalls like loss of jobs or privacy.
“One of the things we heard a lot at least early on was about how the EU is taking a very maybe regulatory approach toward AI,” said Sen. Max Burns, a Sylvania Republican, speaking at the inaugural AI Committee hearing last month. “And our goal, I hope, would be to support AI and support the innovation and the expansion of AI, appropriately, so that it’s good for Georgia, it’s good for Georgians, it’s good for our nation, and I think we can do that, but we don’t need to take maybe the approach that says restrictions as opposed to, as you point out, maybe innovation.”
“I would offer a friendly addition to that as we’re looking through these priorities,” Atlanta Democratic Sen. Jason Esteves said.
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