What should a state government have to demonstrate before it asks residents to trust an AI system? In this episode of Scaling Laws, Nik Blosser, Oregon’s Chief AI Officer, joins Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to discuss Oregon’s approach to adopting and governing AI. They explore Blosser’s role, Oregon’s Medicaid information chatbot and its public disclosure card, and Governor Tina Kotek’s recent executive order on frontier-model procurement. The conversation also considers the limits of state expertise and purchasing power, and the AI issues likely to shape Oregon’s 2027 legislative session. Big thanks to Ellie Lewis and Maggie Byrne of the AI Student Association for hosting Scaling Laws in Eugene! Check out the <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/agency/Pages/ai-disclosure.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oregon AI System Disclosure Card</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Scaling Laws explores (and occasionally answers) the questions that keep OpenAI’s policy team up at night, the ones that motivate legislators to host hearings on AI and draft new AI bills, and the ones that are top of mind for tech-savvy law and policy students. Co-hosts Alan Rozenshtein, Professor at Minnesota Law and Research Director at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas and Senior Editor at Lawfare, dive into the intersection of AI, innovation policy, and the law through regular interviews with the folks deep in the weeds of developing, regulating, and adopting AI. They also provide regular rapid-response analysis of breaking AI governance news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.