New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

New York Governor Kathy Hochul joins Decoder to discuss the state's aggressive tech policy agenda during an election year. The conversation covers New York's settlement with Meta over algorithmic feeds and the state's age verification requirements, efforts to combat 3D-printed ghost guns, the deployment of Flock surveillance cameras, and the contentious politics around building AI data centers. Hochul also defends the decision to enact the nation's first data center moratorium and details a state initiative using AI to analyze every existing New York regulation.