New York governor to use AI to analyze all state rules
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– New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state.
– Hochul’s team is using AI to analyze all state rules, regulations, and policies for outdated legislation.
– Examples of antiquated laws include a $25 fee to take a dog hunting and a permit requirement for pregnant people to work after midnight.
– Hochul said it would have taken about five years of staff work to review all the laws manually.
– The AI analysis is being used despite Hochul’s recent pause on AI data center expansion.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but that hasn’t stopped her from embracing the technology for government efficiency. In a recent interview with Bloomberg‘s Odd Lots podcast, Hochul revealed that her administration is now using AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, and policy in the state’s legal code, aiming to identify and remove outdated legislation.
The governor pointed to several examples of antiquated laws that the AI system has already flagged. These include a $25 fee required to take a dog hunting and a rule that pregnant people need a permit to work after midnight. According to Hochul, manually reviewing the entire state legal code would have taken a team of staffers roughly five years. By deploying AI, her office hopes to dramatically accelerate the cleanup of New York’s regulatory environment, cutting through bureaucratic red tape that has lingered for decades.
(Source: The Verge)
