Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) proposed a bill of rights for the use of artificial intelligence in order to protect Americans.
DeSantis said the new legislation aims to “protect Floridians’ privacy, security, and quality of life.”
“Our AI proposal will establish an Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights to define and safeguard Floridians’ rights—including data privacy, parental controls, consumer protections, and restrictions on AI use of an individual’s name, image or likeness without consent,” he stated.
The proposed bill of rights specifically seeks to prohibit the use of Chinese-created AI tools, bans providing “licensed” therapy or counseling through AI, provides parental controls, prohibits sharing personal data, and other measures.
In order to protect state residents from paying for the development of AI data centers, DeSantis’ proposal will block taxpayer subsidies for Big Tech, allows local governments to prohibit data center development, protect water sources and other natural resources.
DeSantis told reporters upon announcing the proposal, “I think new technologies have to be developed in a way that aligns with American values – things like self-government, free speech, having a healthy labor force, federalism, and the rights of states and the creation and maintenance of strong families.” He explained, “You want technologies that enhance our way of life, not supplant our way of life, and we will never, ever be able to credibly shed ourselves of our responsibility to think for ourselves.”
“We cannot turn it all over to machines and think it’s all going to work out great in the end,” DeSantis declared.
