The South Carolina House of Representatives uses a customized version of Google. Gemini Artificial Intelligence Tool Identifying and potentially eliminating “outdated” rules buried in state systems regulatory codeHouse leadership made the announcement this week.
House Speaker Murrell Smith (R-Sumter): “South Carolina is leading the way in AI.” said in a Nov. 27 social media post. “Chair @JeffBradleyhhi and the AI Commission are partnering with Google to clean up outdated regulations and set an example for the nation.”
According to AI Committee Chairman Jeff Bradley (R-Beaufort), the initiative started in SeptemberHe pitched the idea to Google executives at an event the company hosted for government leaders in Chicago.
“They’re taking our regulatory code and using it as a big language model,” Bradley said. said Pluribus News “We use this to identify outdated, duplicative and confusing regulations and consider removing or changing them.”
Fellow Republican committee member Silest Davis (R-Berkeley) praised the effortsaid it is a “great use of AI” and “will lead to the streamlining of regulations.”
But he agrees with Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort. recent observations While it is inevitable that a supermajority like the one Republicans currently enjoy in the state Legislature will split into factions, S.C. Freedom Caucus Chairman Jordan Pace (R-Berkeley) quickly pushed the idea away from the right. attacked.
“There is no need to ‘organize’ the regulatory state.” Pace wrote back to Smith. “We need to attack with a chainsaw, not a scalpel. It’s not the layoffs that are holding back small businesses, it’s the regulatory state’s mindset that is to blame. Instead of keeping us safe, they are keeping us safe. make us poor.”
The S.C. House of Representatives is scheduled to take up regulatory reform when the 2025-26 session begins in January.
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