The Metro: This local representative is regulating AI. She’s less concerned about data centers
Rep. Tsernoglou spoke with The Metro’s Robyn Vincent about why she works to regulate artificial intelligence, and how we should think about the construction of data centers.
Penelope Tsenoglou represents Michigan's 75th district in the state House.
Artificial intelligence is all around us. AI can now create videos and provide analysis — it’s even able to code. What makes artificial intelligence so weird is that it’s not mechanistic like a light switch or a power button. Instead, AI can make decisions on its own.
So, where should we be using it? And, where should we be limiting its use?
Penelope Tsernoglou is a Democrat representing East Lansing in the state House who has been regulating AI. She helped to outlaw the use of AI to create deepfakes, and supported legislation that would ban employers from using AI to make decisions about wages, and hiring and firing workers. Tsernoglou also wants to prevent AI from determining claims in the healthcare marketplace.
Yet she also sponsored legislation to make it easier to construct data centers in Michigan.
For someone skeptical of artificial intelligence, how should we be considering the construction of data centers, which would greatly advance the technology? Rep. Tsernoglou spoke with The Metro‘s Robyn Vincent about this and more.
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