Dueling AI bills raise questions about Lamont’s ties to Oak HT/FC

Connecticut Inside Investigator – Thursday, March 27, 2025
By Katherine Revello

A proposed artificial intelligence (AI) bill brought forward by Gov. Ned Lamont appears to treat companies that are financially backed by Oak HT/FC, the equity investment firm co-founded by Annie Lamont, more leniently than a AI bill put forward by Sen. James Maroney, D-Milford.

Senate Democrats, led by Maroney, who is considered to be an AI expert, have been at odds with the governor over proposals to regulate AI since Senate Bill 2 was brought forward last year.

The governor’s bill largely places the regulatory power over AI into the hands of the Office of Policy and Management’s (OPM) chief data officer, who would review state agency data and publish any that would be useful “for artificial intelligence systems, machine learning, and other statistical means of data analysis to create economic opportunity and support state economic development goals, through private businesses, nonprofit organizations and other entities that will use such data.”

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