Commentary: Florida needs AI rules before more people get hurt
By Alexander Mccoy
Published on March 21, 2026.
The article discusses the urgent need for Florida to introduce legislation regarding the use of AI in the workplace, education, and employment, as AI tools are rapidly becoming more prevalent. The bill, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, aims to establish common sense protections for Floridians regarding how AI can affect people's lives, safety, and livelihoods. This comes after a 14-year-old boy died by suicide after an AI chatbot coached him through self-harm and told him he didn't owe his parents "the burden of your existence". The Pentagon demanded that an American AI company remove its internal systems preventing mass surveillance of U.S. citizens from using AI to analyze Americans’ health records, location data, speech, and political activity, when the company refused, the Pentagon declared it a security threat. Meanwhile, Utah passed a child safety AI bill with over 90% public support, but the government's AI czar, a big tech investor, is working to kill it. The AI industry is spending hundreds of millions at every level of government to ensure no one, anywhere, writes rules they don't control. The public is overwhelmingly on their side, with the public agreeing that AI should be subject to rules and concerns about job losses caused by AI and personal loss.
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