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US House Committee Advances 10-Year Moratorium on State AI Regulation
After an amendment challenging the moratorium language failed, it will advance with the rest of the legislative package.
Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) called the measure a “shocking surprise addition to the billionaire tax giveaway.” She read letters from civil society groups, including Encode AI, Common Sense Media, Consumer Reports, and Issue One, opposing the moratorium. OpenAI’s Altman replied, “I'm not sure what a 10-year learning period means, but I think having one federal approach focused on light touch and even playing field sounds great to me.” The other executives agreed. Pointing to laws under consideration or recently enacted across the states on AI-related issues such as deepfakes, election disinformation, AI companions, and algorithmic harms, Public Citizen called the prospect of a provision pre-empting state law “an outrageous abdication of Congressional responsibility and a gift-wrapped favor to Big Tech that leaves consumers vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.” “Lawmakers stalled on social media safeguards for a decade, and we are still dealing with the fallout.
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