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Utah Testing America’s First AI Prescription Refills

Utah Testing America’s First AI Prescription Refills

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah is testing America’s first AI system that can refill prescriptions. The pilot program is being operated by the state and a company called Doctronic. An AI system will refill prescriptions for people with chronic conditions. If successful, it could provide other states with a […]

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Utah Bill Seeks to Regulate AI Use in Police Reports

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A new bill in Utah aims to regulate generative AI in police reports. Senate Bill 180 requires law enforcement agencies to have policies on AI use and provide disclaimers if AI is used in creating reports. Additionally, such documents must be reviewed for accuracy. The […]

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Shown are lockers at Penn Wood High School in Lansdowne, Pa., Wednesday, May 3, 2023. As schools across the country struggle to find teachers to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases and bonuses for the beleaguered profession. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Utah Lawmaker Proposes Task Force to Address AI Use in Schools

(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers have introduced HB 168, a bill to establish a task force aimed at overseeing the ethical use of AI in Utah schools. The task force would focus on preventing misuse, such as cheating, while promoting the benefits of AI in education. Although the […]

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KRT LIFESTYLE STORY SLUGGED: FAM-SCHOOLCHOICE KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY TIM DOMINICK/THE STATE (August 10) Pinkie Adams, 15, left, works on her math while her sister, Julie Ann, 13, works with the computer and her spanish lesson at their Columbia, South Carolina, home, on Friday morning, July 23, 2004. Their parents, Bobby and Susann Adams homeschool their three daughters in an attempt  to have more family time. Gov. Mark Sanford has proposed legislation that would give parents a tax incentive for removing their kids from public schools in favor of homeschooling them or sending them to private or parochial schools. (nk) 2004 (Diversity)

Arizona Charter Board Approves School’s AI Curriculum

(Phoenix, AZ) — Students at an Arizona charter school will be taught by artificial intelligence, and the same technology could soon come to classrooms in Utah. The school is fully online with students receiving teaching from A.I. for two hours every day. Unbound operates a private school in Texas using […]

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Members of the House of Representatives are partitioned by plexiglass as the Utah State Legislature opens the 2021 legislative session at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

A.I. Revenge Porn Bill Proposed In Legislature

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A new bill proposed in the legislature would define sexually explicit images of people without their consent as revenge porn. Democratic Senator Karen Kwan has proposed the bill that would close a loophole in the current terms of the anti-deep fake porn law. Currently an […]

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Lawmakers Address AI-generated Child Pornography

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are at work on legislation regarding child exploitation using new forms of technology. Representative Ariel Defry is the sponsor of House Bill 148 which proposes to clarify the illegal nature of developing or distributing AI-generated child pornography in Utah. The state wants to […]

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