Will AI be bigger than the internet? How one Utah lawmaker is thinking about the future

Editor's note: This is part of a KSL.com series looking at the rise of artificial intelligence technology tools such as ChatGPT, the opportunities and risks they pose and what impacts they could have on various aspects of our daily lives. SALT LAKE CITY -- Like all lawmakers in Utah's citizen Legislature, House Majority Whip Jefferson Moss spends most of the year working a day job. Moss, a Republican from Saratoga Springs, has a background in venture capital and technology, so he was quick to see the potential for artificially intelligent chatbots like ChatGPT when it was released last November. And while government as a whole can be slow to adopt new technology, Moss already sees recent breakthroughs in AI technology as huge leaps forward. "I've been following different iterations of AI, but when ChatGPT came out, it really was a game-changer," Moss told KSL.com in March.