Posted on 06/29/2025 10:10:45 AM PDT by yelostar
As Senate Republicans rush to pass their hodgepodge tax and spending package — the “Big, Beautiful Bill” — controversy has arisen around an unusual provision: a 10-year moratorium on states passing their own laws regulating artificial intelligence.
Congress has been slow to pass any regulation on AI, a rapidly evolving technology, leaving states to write their own laws. Those state laws largely focus on preventing specific harms, like banning the use deepfake technology to create nonconsensual pornography, to mislead voters about specific issues or candidates or to mimic music artists’ voices without permission.
Some major companies that lead the U.S. AI industry have argued that a mix of state laws needlessly hamstrings the technology, especially as the U.S. seeks to compete with China. But a wide range of opposition — including some prominent Republican lawmakers, child safety advocates and civil rights groups — say states are a necessary bulwark against a dangerous technology that can cause unknown harms within the next decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
The provision in the omnibus package was introduced by the Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Texas Republican Ted Cruz. Cruz’s office deferred comment to the committee, which has issued an explainer saying that, under the proposed rule, states that want a share of a substantial federal investment in AI must “pause any enforcement of any state restrictions, as specified, related to AI models, AI systems, or automated decision systems for 10 years.”
On Friday, the Senate Parliamentarian said that while some provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are subject to a 60-vote threshold to determine whether or not they can remain in the bill, the AI moratorium is not one of them. Senate Republicans said they are aiming to bring the bill to a vote on Saturday.
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State lawmakers and attorneys general of both parties also oppose the AI provision. An open letter signed by 260 state legislators expressed their ”strong opposition” to the moratorium. “Over the next decade, AI will raise some of the most important public policy questions of our time, and it is critical that state policymakers maintain the ability to respond,” the letter reads.
Similarly, 40 state attorneys general from both parties manifested their opposition to the provision in a letter to Congress. “The impact of such a broad moratorium would be sweeping and wholly destructive of reasonable state efforts to prevent known harms associated with AI,” they wrote.
hodgepodge tax and spending package”
NBC -a toxic waste dump disguised as a TV Network.
I do not like this provision. 10 years is a lifetime, especially for AI. Anyone can do a porno deep fake of you. Other deep fakes can be used for misinformation. All that illegitimate is of deep fakes will not be prosecuted????. Ted Cruz is involved in this????.
It’s going to pass and the media knows it.
Ignore the noise and extend the tax cuts and make them permanent.
- it was recent, just 2 days ago
- the description of the drama surrounding the AI moratorium is accurate and informative
I have no problem using MSM articles as long as they contain factual accuracies relevant to my post.
The last I knew the constitution did not give the federal government any authority over this matter.
“ Anyone can do a porno deep fake of you.”
Entering my dotage, I might consider paying someone to do that if I could choose the supermodels…..
The Constitution also doesn't give the federal government authority over educating children to attain real intelligence either.
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