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#airegulation

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Milo Dide

Tell your #Senators to strip the 10-year ban on #AIregulation from the budget reconciliation bill now.
click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u

click.actionnetwork.orgStop the 10-Year AI Regulation Ban House Republicans are trying to shut down every state’s ability to respond to the real dangers posed by artificial intelligence. Their so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” would impose a ten-year ban on state and local AI laws, taking away your state’s power to protect voters, workers, patients, and consumers from biased and unregulated AI systems. Hidden inside the House-passed budget bill is a sweeping provision that blocks all state and local governments from enforcing any laws related to AI -- from transparency rules to protections against deepfakes, surveillance, discrimination, and bias in hiring, housing, and healthcare -- if the accept billions in federal funding for expanding broadband internet into rural communities and other under resourced neighborhoods. The impact would be devastating. States like California, Illinois, New York, and Maryland have already passed laws to hold AI systems accountable. This ban would freeze those laws and prohibit any new ones, handing the power to regulate AI entirely to Congress, which has failed to act on this issue for years. States have always been first responders when new technologies pose new risks. From workplace protections to consumer safety to civil rights enforcement, state laws have filled the gaps when Washington failed to act. Taking that power away now, at the exact moment AI is reshaping every part of our lives, is a direct threat to public safety and democratic accountability. This ban isn’t about safety or innovation. It is about power. And it hands total control of AI policy to a broken Congress while silencing every state for the next decade. Click ‘START WRITING’ to sign and send your message demanding Senators strip this provision from the budget bill before it kills any chance of real accountability for artificial intelligence now.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"You may have noticed in the above language in the bill goes beyond “AI” and also includes “automated decision systems.” That’s likely because there are two California bills currently under consideration in the state legislature that use the term; AB 1018, the Automated Decisions Safety Act and SB7, the No Robo Bosses Act, which would seek to prevent employers from relying on “automated decision-making systems, to make hiring, promotion, discipline, or termination decisions without human oversight.”

The GOP’s new amendments would ban both outright, along with the other 30 proposed bills that address AI in California. Three of the proposed bills are backed by the California Federation of Labor Unions, including AB 1018, which aims to eliminate algorithmic discrimination and to ensure companies are transparent about how they use AI in workplaces. It requires workers to be told if AI is used in the hiring process, allows them to opt out of AI systems, and to appeal decisions made by AI. The Labor Fed also backs Bryan’s bill, AB 1221, which seeks to prohibit discriminatory surveillance systems like facial recognition, establish worker data protections, and compels employers to notify workers when they introduce new AI surveillance tools.

It should be getting clearer why Silicon Valley is intent on halting these bills: One of the key markets—if not the key market—for AI is as enterprise and workplace software. A top promise is that companies can automate jobs and labor; restricting surveillance capabilities or carving out worker protections promise to put a dent in the AI companies’ bottom lines. Furthermore, AI products and automation software promise a way for managers to evade accountability—laws that force them to stay accountable defeat the purpose."

bloodinthemachine.com/p/de-dem

Blood in the Machine · De-democratizing AIBy Brian Merchant
#USA#GOP#AI
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"You’d be hard-pressed to find a more obvious example of the need for regulation and oversight in the artificial intelligence space than recent reports that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, known as Grok, has been discussing white nationalist themes with X users. NBC News reported Thursday that some users of Musk’s social media platform noticed the chatbot was responding to unrelated user prompts with responses discussing “white genocide.”

For background, this is a false claim promoted by Afrikaners and others, including Musk, that alleges white South African land owners have been systematically attacked for the purpose of ridding them and their influence from that country. It’s a claim that hews closely to propaganda spread by white nationalists about the purported oppression of white people elsewhere in Africa.

It’s hard to imagine a more dystopian scenario than this."

msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/g

MSNBC · Elon Musk’s chatbot just showed why AI regulation is an urgent necessityBy Ja'han Jones
#AI#GenerativeAI#xAI
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"OpenAI’s dueling cultures—the ambition to safely develop AGI, and the desire to grow a massive user base through new product launches—would explode toward the end of 2023. Gravely concerned about the direction Altman was taking the company, Sutskever would approach his fellow board of directors, along with his colleague Mira Murati, then OpenAI’s chief technology officer; the board would subsequently conclude the need to push the CEO out. What happened next—with Altman’s ouster and then reinstatement—rocked the tech industry. Yet since then, OpenAI and Sam Altman have become more central to world affairs. Last week, the company unveiled an “OpenAI for Countries” initiative that would allow OpenAI to play a key role in developing AI infrastructure outside of the United States. And Altman has become an ally to the Trump administration, appearing, for example, at an event with Saudi officials this week and onstage with the president in January to announce a $500 billion AI-computing-infrastructure project.

Altman’s brief ouster—and his ability to return and consolidate power—is now crucial history to understand the company’s position at this pivotal moment for the future of AI development.

Details have been missing from previous reporting on this incident, including information that sheds light on Sutskever and Murati’s thinking and the response from the rank and file. Here, they are presented for the first time, according to accounts from more than a dozen people who were either directly involved or close to the people directly involved, as well as their contemporaneous notes, plus screenshots of Slack messages, emails, audio recordings, and other corroborating evidence.

The altruistic OpenAI is gone, if it ever existed. What future is the company building now?"

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

The Atlantic · What Really Happened When OpenAI Turned on Sam AltmanBy Karen Hao
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI
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PixelJones

This is insanely reckless. This would be like someone in the "horseless carriage" days declaring that there could be no traffic or safety laws for the next ten years ... just because. That's absolutely wrong-headed. New tech is likely to need new regulations as unanticipated risks or consequences arise.

Republicans are literally trying to sneak a clause into the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that prevents the regulation of AI for 10 years. Why isn't everyone sounding the alarm about this ?;
#AI#AIRisks#AIRegulation
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