What would these new Massachusetts regulations do?

The Massachusetts regulations really build on some laws that were passed in California and New York and Illinois, and they have a few different mechanisms.

The ones that emulate the previous legislation ask the AI companies to report any safety incidents within 15 days, and then they also have to have kind of a safety policy or safety protocol.

And so where Massachusetts wants to go a step further is not just looking at the safety protocols, but what's happening inside the software itself.

And so they introduced the idea of an independent evaluator that would really be able to open up the hood and poke around the inner workings of these AI models.

They'd be able to do that every four months, and what they're looking for is something built into the model that is not are they biased against a particular job applicant or might they cause delays of flights at Logan Airport? They're looking for large scale potential problems, like a billion dollars or more in financial consequences or 50-plus people that are killed or injured because of something that the AI does.

Among the people that you spoke with, give us a sense of which people have which concerns about these regulations.

I think there's really two valid concerns that emerge.