The Westchester County Real Estate Policy Playbook

Earlier this year, in response to concerns over energy affordability and slow progress on infrastructure, New York rolled back its ambitious climate action plans by amending the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019. READ MORE

Artificial intelligence has made its way into nearly every aspect of our lives, creeping into our daily coffee orders, Google searches and even scheduling doctor’s visits. It drafts emails, summarizes meetings, generates artwork, assists physicians, screens job applicants and powers everything from customer service chatbots to smartphone search engines. As the technology moves at breakneck speed, lawmakers across the country are grappling with increasingly urgent questions: Who is responsible when these systems make mistakes? How much transparency should the public expect? How can governments encourage innovation without sacrificing accountability? These concerns are growing faster than lawmakers can figure out how to regulate them. But why? READ MORE

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent Executive Order No. 62, enacting a first-in-the-nation, one-year moratorium on large scale data centers, is the state’s most recent move to address the advancement of artificial intelligence and determine where infrastructure fits in New York’s plans for this rapidly evolving industry. READ MORE