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A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech’s legal guardrails
Facial recognition and kids online safety laws could be impacted, too.
He warns that as written, the language included in the House-passed budget reconciliation package could restrict state laws that attempt to regulate social media companies, prevent algorithmic rent discrimination, or limit AI deepfakes that could mislead consumers and voters. “The ban’s language on automated decision making is so broad that we really can’t be 100 percent certain which state laws it could touch,” says Jonathan Walter, senior policy advisor at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. An analysis by nonprofit AI advocacy group Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) found that a social media-focused law like New York’s “ Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation for Kids Act ” could be unintentionally voided by the provision.
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