New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

Governor Kathy Hochul backs the Meta settlement that limits teen access to Instagram and mandates universal age-verification, effectively ending online anonymity, while defending New York’s 3-D-printer ghost-gun ban despite activist “Hochulization” of file libraries. She also imposed a one-year moratorium on data-center construction and is weighing criteria for future approvals as AI and surveillance issues dominate the election-year agenda.