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Stopping States From Passing AI Laws for the Next Decade Is a Terrible Idea (www.eff.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This week, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee moved forward with a proposal in its budget reconciliation bill to impose a ten-year preemption of state AI regulation—essentially saying only Congress, not state legislatures, can place safeguards on AI for the next decade.

We strongly oppose this. We’ve talked before about why federal preemption of stronger state privacy laws hurts everyone. Many of the same arguments apply here. For one, this would override existing state laws enacted to mitigate against emerging harms from AI use. It would also keep states, which have been more responsive on AI regulatory issues, from reacting to emerging problems.

Finally, it risks freezing any regulation on the issue for the next decade—a considerable problem given the pace at which companies are developing the technology.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago

Preemptively banning regulation that does not yet exist should not be allowed, in any industry.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

This is why when Republicans claim to be pro-states rights nobody believes them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This actually was attempted before, isps were trying to prevent states from passing their own net neutrality laws.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

ai should be limited to Alabama only. Illegal everywhere else. It's practically in Alabama's name already so changing the signs and drivers licenses wouldn't cost a dime.

[–] BattleMasker 1 points 4 days ago

I was thinking it'd be bad cause it could result in csam, deepfakes of political enemies, or deepfaked csam of political enemies