Together, we can make sure technology works for us and doesn’t exploit us. I’ve authored legislation to set standards for the way algorithmic softwares (including AI) are used and for other emerging technologies, including cryptocurrency kiosks. 

• Banning companies from using AI to conduct surveillance pricing: Massive corporations are using AI to charge you prices based on the amount of money you have instead of based on a price set by the going rate. When Ticketmaster does this, we pay higher prices for live entertainment. When the airline industry does it, fewer people can afford to travel. When Instacart does it, they turn convenience into an opportunity to gauge shoppers. Technological advancements should benefit us, instead they’re making almost everything more expensive.

• Protecting kids – an “away all day” statewide policy on cell phones, getting screens and distractions out of the classroom, a ban on AI use in K-8, and requiring evidence showing that EdTech products actually improve learning outcomes better than traditional methods before adoption.

• Protecting kids from data collection, targeted ads, and addictive feeds: SAFE Kids Act. We need to stop Big Tech from addicting our kids.

• Prohibiting insurance companies to use AI to deny prior authorization claims.

• Prohibiting landlords from using AI to illegally fix rent prices.

• Stopping crypto-kiosk fraud: Consumer protection can be strengthened within every state agency.

• Enabling electronic IDs and driver’s licenses 

• Grocery prices shouldn’t be different after work on a Tuesday than they are on a Sunday afternoon before the Packers play.

• Protect human tasks for human beings — do not allow AI to do the crucial work of regulated, licensed professionals – law, medicine, counseling, etc. Tools that assist in the work done by professionals are fine but must be overseen by and subservient to an actual human who is a qualified licensed professional in our jurisdiction.

• Broadly shared benefits of AI-driven productivity increases — not structural 10% unemployment but 4-day workweeks.

• Broadband – The internet is necessary for a successful democracy, and broadband/high speed internet connectivity should be a public utility available to all.

• Regulate data centers: Right now, the richest and most powerful corporations in the history of the world are steamrolling local communities, destroying the environment, demanding massive amounts of power, and causing huge increases in energy costs. My plan is to sign an executive order on Day 1 so that no new data centers are built in Wisconsin without strong safeguards, like those in the strong regulation bill I’ve sponsored. Technological advancements must benefit Wisconsinites. But more than regulation, we also need to stop subsidizing data centers and instead demand significant investment from them for our public benefit. That’s why I’ll require upfront payments from large data center projects to capitalize a public infrastructure bank, which will provide no-cost loans for clean energy upgrades to public buildings like schools and courthouses.

As governor, I will continue to fight for an affordable Wisconsin where innovation serves people, not the other way around.