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• @senblumenthal Richard Blumenthal on x

  Trump is once again weaponizing the White House on behalf of Big Tech. This E.O. would punish & coerce states for commonsense AI safeguards against deepfakes, child sexual exploitation, & elections interference. The receipts for this unlawful & corrupt ploy are in Silicon Valley.

• @dareasmunhoz Diego Areas Munhoz on x

  WH considering EO to curb states' AI laws. Comes as House GOP seeks to include AI preemption in NDAA. Looking like full court pressure out of admin to enact this top industry priority. GOP govs and conservatives very uncomfortable with the idea. Let's see what they say about EO

• @benbrodydc Ben Brody on x

  Yes a lot of folks downtown are hearing this. Specifically: * DOJ looking into states whose AI laws might get in the way of interstate commerce * FCC considers it in certain telecom funds * Commerce looking into laws that force models to alter “truth”

• @senblumenthal Richard Blumenthal on x

  Make no mistake: Trump is working for Mark Zuckerberg—not you. The President's AI agenda is raising your electrical bills, supercharging China's tech sector, putting predatory chatbots in your child's hands & risking an AI bubble. Big Tech owns this White House, literally.

• @tedlieu Ted Lieu on x

  Dear CEOs: Do you want Trump or any future President using the Department of Justice as his own private law firm and specifically ordering the DOJ on who to sue or prosecute? This is Trump's last term. Do you want a future President to use DOJ to go after you or your business?

• @sjgadler Steven Adler on x

  Here's a past thread with lots of examples of “AI-related bills” that are hardly going to create a patchwork: https://x.com/...

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  hot damn, we went from losing 99-1 in the senate to an executive order in record time.

• @sjgadler Steven Adler on x

  The claims about a supposed patchwork of 1,000+ state AI bills are severely overstated. The bills counted are often 1) not even about AI, 2) are pro-AI, or 3) have no regulatory effects at all. 🧵: [image]

• @gc22gc @gc22gc on x

  Joe Allen has a leaked draft of Trump's AI EO. It would let the feds sue any state that tries to regulate AI and puts David Sacks in charge of reviewing 100s of state laws. This is about who controls the future of AI. Trump said child protection and censorship rules would be [vid…

• @ednewtonrex Ed Newton-Rex on x

  Trump is planning an executive order that would ban state AI laws. It says US policy will be “a minimally burdensome, uniform national policy framework for AI.” If this goes ahead, this is how exploitative AI companies win. https://www.theverge.com/... [image]

• @donmiami3 Don Johnson on x

  Laying the groundwork for too big to fail...

• @jimstewartson @jimstewartson on x

  Gotta keep that bubble inflating... The AI industry is metastasized cancer. It's not going to kill us because it's too smart, it's going to kill us because the people building it are too greedy.

• @dowdedward Edward Dowd on x

  Yeah because the The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 that gave immunity to Vaccine Manufacturers worked out so well.

• @stealthqe4 @stealthqe4 on x

  Why doesn't something like this have to move through Congress. This isn't an EO. It's extortion by the big tech oligarchs. In 2008 it was Wall St Today it's Big Tech. Except this time they're asking for bailouts before anything busts. Unbelievable.

• @sjgadler Steven Adler on x

  One pretty surprising stat: Roughly 40% of the supposed patchwork of bills never even mention AI, or mention it only once [image]

• @sjgadler Steven Adler on x

  To be clear, I too would prefer that AI safety laws be federal rather than state. But real federal laws don't seem to be in the cards Often when people say they want a federal standard, my sense is they mean roughly “I want no new laws at all.” That seems bad!

• @mrddmia @mrddmia on x

  So if a state passes a law, for example, banning the sale of AI teddy bears that speak in sexual explicit terms to kids, the Trump DOJ must sue the state? Or sue a state that makes AI data centers—instead of working-class Americans—pay for their higher electricity consumption?

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  America will regret this.  99 Senators across both parties rejected an earlier version of it.  It will leave our children and mentally ill vulnerable.  It may end privacy as we know it.  It will escalate the chance of uncontrollable and unaligned AI.  And it will set a precedent …

• @hamandcheese Samuel Hammond on x

  My POV on AI moratoria / preemption hasn't much changed: There are some dumbass laws being proposed but from the POV of “winning the AI race,” they're nothing compared to the vast technical debt of existing laws and regulations that are implicitly incompatible with new AI

• @dmichaeltripi Dominic Michael Tripi on x

  BREAKING: Trump considering executive order that bans states from restricting AI, threatening to halt federal funding in any state that attempts to impose regulations while additionally creating AI Litigation Task Force overseen by AG Pam Bondi.

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  It's notable that the leaked Trump AI preemption executive order contains an idea that venture capital firm @a16z has been pushing.  The EO would challenge state AI laws “including on grounds that such laws unconstitutionally regulate interstate commerce.”  In a piece earlier thi…

• @sjgadler Steven Adler on x

  More generally, patchworks could be bad yes. But if people are worried, I wish they'd point to specific contradictions in AI bills (so we can avoid these), not just raise the specter of possible contradictions.

• @maxboot Max Boot on bluesky

  The Republican Party has traditionally been vocal about limits to federal power over states, as defined in the U.S. Constitution.  If signed by Trump, the draft executive order would escalate his efforts to force states into line with his priorities. www.washingtonpost.com/techno…

• @rweingarten Randi Weingarten on bluesky

  So how much does big tech control the White House- this draft EO tells you: The Administration refuses to regulate Big Tech; failed get Congress to stop states from doing so & now wants to sue states who regulate tech including protecting kids & data privacy. www.washingtonpost.c…

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  With Trump, federal AI regulations vanished, so states stepped in.  Now AI companies faces a nightmare of conflicting local laws.  —  Trump to the rescue.  He plans to ban state AI regulations and launch a task force to fight state laws.  Federal deregulation has mutated into agg…

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on bluesky

  This is not about crafting good regulation, it is about control of laws by big tech who bought a coin-op president.  Also Congress already rejected this www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

• @roryflynn808 Rory Flynn on bluesky

  Think localities control zoning?  Right-of-ways for power lines?  Manage the sustainable yield of aquifers and water resources?  Think twice.  Trump is working on a federal presumption statute to secure the future of AI, tech bros, and investors.  Big Brother is coming!  —  www.t…

• @davelee.me Dave Lee on bluesky

  Congress voted against this — even the idea that federal funding would be used as the stick.  And yet...  [embedded post]

• @tinanguyen Tina Nguyen on bluesky

  I obtained a draft of the WH's executive order that would ban state AI laws via at least FOUR agencies  —  www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

• @reckless Nilay Patel on bluesky

  Huge @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop: Trump is preparing to try and ban all state AI laws, going so far as having Brendan Carr's FCC pull rural broadband funds from states that try to regulate AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

• r/fednews r on reddit

  Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order

• r/politics r on reddit

  White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations

• r/law r on reddit

  White House prepares executive order to block state AI laws

• r/politics r on reddit

  Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order

• r/USNEWS r on reddit

  White House prepares executive order to block state AI laws

• r/politics r on reddit

  Here's the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws