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Kansas lawmakers briefed on AI task force; members raise concerns about partisan exclusion and ‘hallucinations’
Summary
A legislative briefing described a new industry-and‑higher-education AI task force meant as a knowledge resource for lawmakers; members raised concerns about lack of Democratic inclusion, transparency, and AI errors ("hallucinations") that can produce false information.
Representative Sean Walcott briefed the Committee on Legislative Modernization on a newly formed artificial‑intelligence task force and answered lawmakers’ questions about what AI is, how it is used and how the task force will operate.
Walcott told the committee that, at its core, “artificial intelligence … is nothing more than a software package” that uses statistical analysis to return the most probable outcome. He said public awareness rose sharply after 2022 when consumer chatbots became widely available, but that chatbots and robotics are different components of broader systems.
The task force, Walcott said, has expanded to about 15 members and includes three legislators, executive‑branch and attorney‑general office representation, AI researchers from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University, and private‑sector experts including the…
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