After two years of research into how states are using and thinking about AI, New America has published an expansive report that its creators say contains encouraging signs. Lilian Coral, vice president of New America’s technology and democracy programs, and Neil Kleiman, urban policy professor at Northeastern University’s public policy school, tell the Priorities Podcast that the implications of generative AI are far-reaching. Kleiman called the findings “remarkable.” “The other thing we were struck by was the politics around this,” he says. “Everybody is either excited or so freaked out about this technology that everybody is ready to do something.” Coral says she also hears fear and excitement emanating from government, but “what I was really encouraged by was the level of conversation that I could hear.”