AI Policy Primer: How New AI Laws Can Protect Our Clients

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As AI, algorithms, and related technologies proliferate in the lives of low-income people seeking benefits, housing, work, and safety, advocates must fight the individual harms while also keeping in mind broader systemic protections available through legislative or executive action. With Congress slow to act, many states are actively considering or adopting measures to regulate AI's use. This session will discuss the general features of AI-related legislation, regulations, and agency guidance, how the proposals will or won't protect low-income communities, and what to look out for in similar discussions at the state or local level. Please note that this session is crafted with LSC-funded programs in mind and will not involve prohibited activities.

Understand the harms that AI, algorithms, and related technologies cause low-income communities
Identify legislation, regulations, and executive orders that purport to regulate the use of AI, algorithms, and related technologies and identify their limitations
Understand what measures might make legislation, regulations, and executive orders more effective in protecting low-income communities from harms caused by AI, algorithms, and related technologies

Kevin De Liban, JD

Director of Advocacy

Legal Aid of Arkansas

Kevin De Liban is an attorney and the Director of Advocacy at Legal Aid of Arkansas, where he nurtures multi-dimensional efforts to improve the lives of low-income Arkansans in civil legal matters involving health, workers' rights, public benefits, housing, consumer rights, and domestic violence. With Legal Aid, he has represented nearly 2,000 clients and led successful systemic campaigns tackling cutting-edge issues of modern anti-poverty advocacy: ending the state’s use of algorithms that cut the in-home care of elderly and disabled people, stopping Medicaid work reporting requirements that had stripped health insurance from 18,000 people in five months, and overcoming qualified immunity to hold state officials personally liable for running roughshod over constitutional rights. In 2022, he co-founded the Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub, a collaboration between public interest lawyers and technologists to fight the harmful use of tech in public benefits. Kevin regularly presents about imposing accountability on artificial intelligence and algorithms and consults with U.S. and international advocates fighting harmful technologies. His work has appeared on or in the PBS Newshour, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, the Economist, the Verge, and other publications and podcasts. When not practicing law, Kevin is passionately creating music as a rapper.