Utah should be the next state to explore these innovative and effective treatment options, and Utah’s lawmakers should explore ways to deregulate barriers to this treatment option via avenues such as occupational licensing reform.
Utah’s lawmakers will have a plethora of regulatory decisions to make surrounding these tools. With these decisions, lawmakers must allow the benefits of the tools to be reaped by their citizens to their fullest extent.
When it comes to statutory restrictions that use age-verification mechanisms, legislators should slow down. It’s impossible to contain a breach once it occurs, and that’s enough reason to get these bills right the first time with as much input as possible.
AI will continue to take on more complex tasks. The developers of AI will fix its current flaws. Therefore, knowing how to use AI effectively will be a powerful skill. Using it ethically will be powerful for humanity.
One thing is clear: Utah’s legal innovation has opened a door for more robust conversations and opportunities in the gig economy — a door kept shut for far too long.
