The Video Game AI Conundrum: Can Lawmakers Regulate AI Without Stifling Innovation?

Let me stop you there because it seems like there's just a never-ending stream of issues.

And one of the things I definitely want to explore with you that you've already mentioned here is that you do work in the States and then you do work on the federal level.

Yes.

And for a lot of us IP attorneys, sometimes we forget that the states actually have a legal system.

But they do, and they really impact you guys and seem to be impacting you even more and more now that we're in this AI space or AI world, right?

Absolutely.

So tell the audience a little bit about a day in your life there.

Because you have 50 different laboratories plus the federal laboratory.

Yes.

Well, before I ask any more questions, let's just throw that out there.

What is a typical day in your life there? I mean, it seems like there's always got to be an issue popping up somewhere.

Definitely.

Well, in my job, I support our government affairs teams.

in going out there, both federally in the states, as they advocate for our members.

So I could come in one day and it's, we've seen legislation that's deepfakes legislation, for example, that would fine companies that make available certain tools for creating likenesses, for example.

So I have to put on my sort of deepfakes digital replicas hats and figure out how can we still achieve what legislators want to get at, which is protecting consumers from harmful, deceptive deepfakes, but also still protect the industry so that it can continue to use technology to develop video game content, for example.

So that's one example of, you know, state legislation.

And it could be federally, it could be chatbot legislation, and I'm asked to review it.

Well, let's talk a little bit about the deepfake stuff, because that to me seems to be an area, and I have a little knowledge of this because you've been on our stage before on programs.

So It doesn't seem like the state legislatures are trying to go out and do things that are like... have the gaming industry in the crosshairs, I guess you might say.

That's right.

But sometimes the language that they use is so overbroad that it could capture them.

And in this area, there's a whole host of games that exist because of made-up worlds.

Yes.

Fake characters.