Ferguson Touts Artificial Intelligence Legislation

One of the final bills signed into law this week by Governor Wes Moore was Maryland’s AI Ready Schools Act. With increasing speed that artificial intelligence is finding its way into the lives of state residents, Senate President Bill Ferguson said he feels the education arena needed special attention on how to use the technology safely and effectively…

“It’s just as deliberate about the tech that does belong there, bringing educators together to use AI well, on purpose, with all of the right guardrails instead of letting it wash over our kids by accident and we don’t find ourselves here, twenty years from now, saying ‘what have we done?’”