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So a group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced the Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act

It's a bill that would treat certain AI-driven decisions as civil rights issues.

As summarized by NextGov, the bill aims to protect people when algorithms help make consequential decisions in areas such as jobs, housing, education, healthcare, and financial services.

And with the FDA, maybe that's also FDA decisions in the future.

It would ban algorithmic discrimination, define broadly as unfair treatment based on protected traits like race, gender, or disability, and require developers to take reasonable measures to prevent harm.

That includes independent audits, pre-deployment impact assessments, accurate advertising of AI capabilities, and engagement with communities likely to be affected.

The Federal Trade Commission would enforce the rules.

The timing is not accidental.

Senator Ed Markey says tech companies are lobbying to attach a decade-long moratorium on state-level AI regulation to this year's National Defense Authorization Act, which would prevent states from passing their own protection.

The bill, which stalled in the last Congress, is now cast as a direct answer to that effort.

There's text on, you can find out more on congress.com, and it shows that it leans heavily on transparency, choice between algorithmic and human review, and clear accountability when AI tools harm people.

So we've seen Colorado do a version of this.

We've seen California do a version of this.

And there's been a lot of back and forth on the governance and regulation side of things.

But this is a federal level.

So it could act like as a template, sort of our own version of the EU AI Act in terms of guidance, guide rails, and those kinds of things.

And I'm sure there's...

There's definitely a larger discussion here because there's team go as fast as possible so you can solve your own problems that you're causing.

And team, hey, if we all just take a moment now, then we can save ourselves a big headache a little later down the line.

And sort of a weave off of that story is the last story I have for today is New York.