Hello there. It's great to see you again. Welcome back to Mlex's podcast covering the biggest regulatory stories from around the world.

And we do it every week with the assistance of our team of reporters ensconced and

embedded in the corridors of administrative power. My name is James Panicki, M-Mex's Asia

Senior Editor, coming to you today from Melbourne, Australia, and it's great to have your company.

And wow, has chat GPT been getting a run in the media recently? No doubt,

as a result of journalists looking over their shoulders and wondering if the artificial

intelligence chatbot is about to do them out of a job. And the answer, by the way,

appears to be not yet, although the broader question of what illiterate and well-informed chatbot might do to the

search engine market is still very much up for debate. But where, and here's the M-lex question

for you today, where are the regulators on the issue of artificial intelligence? Well, as always,

in the US, it's a state-by-state proposition,

but overall, we know that rules on how artificial intelligence manages personal data are likely

to become a hot topic of conversation. Luckily for us, we have a San Francisco bureau

crammed with smart reporters to cover these very issues.

Jen Bryce is one of them.

Amy Miller is another, and they're both with me right now.

Jen, now several state privacy laws will be taking effect this year.

What, if anything, do they tell us about artificial intelligence?

So there are five state privacy laws taking effect this year, and four of them, California,

Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, give consumers the right to opt out of having their personal

information processed by these automated decision-making systems, which have been around for

a while, but these days fall under the AI umbrella because they're using machine

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