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New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’
August 31, 2026
Governor Kathy Hochul discussed New York’s tech agenda, including restrictions on teen social media use, a one-year moratorium on data center construction signed in July, surveillance cameras, ghost guns, and AI policy in an election year. The interview frames her as taking a hard line on platform and infrastructure regulation while weighing how to make AI and data centers “less evil” and workable for New York.
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