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About the bill to outlaw AI for various election purposes: there is a deeper problem with it (SB1360) than the one stated here. Ai has become an extremely broad term, potentially covering software approaches that are used nearly everywhere, such as for autocomplete in writing. In elections, tabulators need to determine when they can't determine the voter's intent. This is an automatic decision process that could be called AI these days (AI originally [in the 1950s] referred to a set of rules to mimic human behavior, and now refers to mathematical algorithms that are trained to get a desired result). The term is so general that it now covers many things that we all depend on; it's not just Chat GPT (and it's certainly not SkyNet). Last year I gave testimony to the House committee considering this Senate bill. since I worked in this area for 40 years; they listened politely and then voted in favor of it anyway. Gov. Hobbs vetoed it, and hopefully she will again if it makes it through.

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Great history lesson on SB1070 and the new HCR. Toma's going to have a big week. The House Speaker/ Congressional candidate started with a tough on "illegal aliens" speech, bill and media around it. He's ending the week with a bipartisan junket to Israel. How many [most likely private] speeches will he give on that "educational" trip? The Agenda needs a mole with a hot mic. Stat.

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The article about saguaros on the border. The sentence reads " but the report says at least have didn’t survive the move, per KJZZ’s Tori Gantz. " Should be half instead of have. I enjoy the Arizona Agenda every day. Thanks for doing it.

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Ah good catch thanks! Fun fact: we write the whole email by just speaking into siri

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