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The New York state Senate adjourned in the early hours of Friday morning, but Albany area legislator Sen. Pat Fahy’s session still wasn’t over.
“I stayed and had a very intense day on Friday,” she told Capital Tonight on Monday. “We were still trying to save two bills that had passed the Senate, that we were trying to get through the Assembly.”
Only one of those two bills made it to the floor for a vote: the “New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act," which passed the Assembly at almost the very last moment of session.
“We did pull [that] one from the ashes and that was one that had a lot of opposition,” she said.
The bill, which still needs the governor’s signature to become law, requires clear disclaimers when artificial intelligence is used in any published news content. According to Fahy, it’s a landmark bill – the first one like it in the country.
“When something is substantially AI, artificial intelligence-generated, it will now have to be labeled unless it’s copyrighted,” Fahy said.
The bill that didn’t pass in the Assembly was Fahy’s “Consumer Wheelchair Repair Act” (S.4500 Fahy/A.6569 Bores), aimed at addressing long repair wait times and limited consumer choice for powered wheelchair users.
“To be continued,” Fahy said.
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