All across the country, state legislatures — in sharp contrast to Congress — are
scrambling to pass laws that try to limit the harms of artificial intelligence
technology.

Why?

* Because Big Tech is locked in a myopic AI arms race, rushing out ever more
powerful systems with no apparent regard for the negative impacts on
consumers, workers, and our society at large.

* Artificial intelligence technology has gotten so powerful that it is becoming
increasingly difficult to know whether what you’re reading, hearing, or
seeing is real or not.

* AI systems are already threatening our democracy, supercharging the spread of
nonconsensual intimate images, fostering discrimination in housing and job
interviews, and threatening the future of the Internet.

After ChatGPT made its first big public splash, members of Congress agreed on
the need to regulate this rapidly evolving technology. But then Big Tech
deployed its lobbyists, flexed its political muscle, cozied up to Donald Trump,
and spread the lie that regulating AI would undermine U.S. economic
competitiveness — and Congress lost interest in addressing AI harms.

Instead, Republicans in Congress are fighting over just how many Americans
should lose health care and go hungry to fund even more tax breaks for
billionaires and Big Business.

In league with Big Tech, Senator Ted Cruz (Texas) is trying to sneak language
into the “reconciliation” bill that would nullify all state and local safeguards
on AI for a decade. A decade — when the tech bro’s of Silicon Valley are
launching more and more powerful systems seemingly every week!

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Silicon Valley’s reckless AI arms race, not giving Big Tech a decade to do
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