{"id":717110,"date":"2026-06-21T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717110\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:26:31","slug":"how-ai-created-an-hoa-controversy-in-ahwatukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717110\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI created an HOA controversy in Ahwatukee"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Board members at the Foothills Club West HOA say they used artificial intelligence when writing new parking policies, a decision that led to an overflow crowd of angry homeowners<\/a> at Thursday night\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n

The board rescinded the policies after the backlash, and the board president said mistakes were made in the process, including trusting AI to write the new rules.<\/p>\n

How the AI-generated rules went wrong<\/p>\n

Board members admitted that artificial intelligence was used during the process when creating the new parking policies.<\/p>\n

Richard Lake, a Foothills Club West HOA board member at-large, said the AI-generated document expanded from a dozen points to multiple pages.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t have any input, we\u2019re going to get slammed,\u201d Lake said.<\/p>\n

Why AI requires human oversight<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is shockingly common in law,\u201d Sean A. Harrington said.<\/p>\n

Harrington is the director<\/a> of the AI and Legal Tech Studio at ASU<\/a>. He says organizations can use AI to help create policies, but only with the right oversight.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt crucial decisions where people are making real decisions that are going to impact the lives of others, a human is very carefully reviewing the output, all of it, and then evaluating it, and then, you know, editing it, if necessary, and then going forward with it,\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t happen here, and it\u2019s a warning for this board and any elected official before using AI to govern.<\/p>\n

AI expert Andrew Maynard<\/a> says artificial intelligence isn\u2019t perfect, and everyone must treat it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would never say don\u2019t use AI, but I would say think about what you\u2019re trying to achieve. And in a situation like this, almost definitely the human approach without AI would have led to something better, more robust,\u201d Maynard said.<\/p>\n

The Foothills Club West HOA board president says he\u2019s learned his lesson from this situation, and the board plans to make public and community input a priority when creating new policies.<\/p>\n

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