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Lynn Teague, September 10: If the nation is to advance responsibly in AI, meaningful regulatory oversight of the industry and a strong safety net are essential. Otherwise it is going to be a terrible time in which far more suffer than benefit. Even a cure for cancer is not much of a counterweight to the scale of the potential harms. Regulatory guardrails and an economic safety net are unlikely to be perfect, but they are essential to mitigate potential harms.

In the next legislative session, those who watch the Legislature for education issues are likely to see controversies over public school funding and accountability, student discipline, parental rights, teacher salaries and staffing shortages, funding for mobile panic alarms, coercive control, culture war issues and revised social studies standards.