Gov. Spencer Cox told a gathering of policymakers and tech leaders Tuesday morning that as artificial intelligence seeps further into daily life, “We have to apply Utah values to this new technology.”

So his administration plans to launch what the governor called a “pro-human AI” initiative in an effort to shape the future of AI development and use in the state.

The move comes almost two years after lawmakers voted to create an Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy , which helped arrange the Utah AI Summit in downtown Salt Lake City where Cox made the announcement.

“We’ve used human ingenuity ... to build machines and connect them together and take, again, all of human knowledge and employ it in whatever way we want, whatever way we decide,” Cox said. “But here’s the thing: We have

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