Albany Wants AI Use Flagged in Election Ads: New York Brief

A bid to regulate AI-generated political ads gains steam, the race to replace Jerry Nadler gets ugly, and Mamdani gets tested by a snowstorm, below:

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This year in Albany, New York Democrats have a growing interest in putting guardrails around AI as it takes hold in a host of new areas — especially one close to their interests: elections.

I’m Raga Justin, a Bloomberg Government reporter who covers Gov. Kathy Hochul from Albany.

The latest sign that reining in AI is a priority here in the Capitol comes from Hochul, who’s looking to regulate the use of political content ...