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I'm John Batch with my good colleague, Kevin Fraser, who's my eyes on AI and the law.

Brave new world. So we have recommendations early from Kevin in his essay for Civitas Outlook.

This is the University of Texas Civitas Institute at Austin.

Kevin, you're recommending not get in front of this, but wait.

Premature legislative commands.

We've given two examples, California, New York.

Are there other states that are also jumping into this,

and do we have any understanding that they're coordinating between themselves?

There are numerous states, John, that are rushing to regulate AI without doing what I would

regard as basic good public policy, which is to say actively measuring the costs and the benefits of a new

technology. So in Colorado, for example, we've seen that the state legislature there rushed to

pass one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching pieces of AI legislation. Now, the legislature

realized, whoa, we went way too fast. We don't know what we're doing with respect to how this law is actually going to be implemented and how it's going to alter AI innovation. And now they're continuing to postpone enforcement of that law as a result. Similarly, in Illinois, we saw that there was a ban imposed on the use of AI therapy tools.

And while that may sound fine and dandy, we're not paying enough attention to the fact that

AI use changes on an individual basis and changes day after day as the technology improves.

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