Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI

FWIW, The American liberal sentiment towards "big tech" is just as fickle, if not more. The funnier overall lesson is that neither side has learned to distrust the market. We've known for years that Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg are spineless sycophants.

How can anyone pretend to be surprised?

Re: Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI

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Post by taylodl » Wed, May 14, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

Ever notice how Republicans are die-hard for states' rights-right up until a state wants to regulate something they don’t like? When a state bans books, it’s freedom. When a state wants to regulate AI, it’s tyranny. Got it.

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Post by globie » Wed, May 14, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

I find most efforts to regulate AI to be misplaced or futile.

But this resolution specifically safeguards AI "automated decision systems", which they define as:

> any computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues a simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, to materially influence or replace human decision making.

Recommendation algorithms [weaponize influence against people that] decide elections, change laws, and move markets. The US effectively mandated a minimum drinking age by tying it to interstate funding. Some 40 years later, you can (AFAIK) openly operate a recommendation algorithm aimed at getting masses of people to drink and drive, and still be eligible for federal grants and funding.

AI should be open and free of barriers. Our government should not give money to corporations that manipulate our emotions for control and profit. Sure, we can rabble to our tribe about "Republicans" and "the GOP", but federal funding and directing of the manipulation of Americans was enabled by the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 under a split congress and democratic president.

Increasing corporate control over the public is currently a bipartisan issue, and words can't undo it.

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Post by bediger4000 » Wed, May 14, 2025, 6:36 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #3

I remember when the GOP rhetoric was anti "big tech". Rather they're big tech's best buddy...

It must feel strange to be one of the few "movement" conservatives left, the folks who still believe in state's rights small, local government, personal responsibility, character mattering, things like that.

If you're one of the faithful, your national and state leadership was revealed as liars, with no moral principles and no spine. You've been abandoned after years of believing.

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Post by duxup » Wed, May 14, 2025, 6:50 PM UTC

bediger4000 wrote: post #8

duxup wrote: post #3

I remember when the GOP rhetoric was anti "big tech". Rather they're big tech's best buddy...

It must feel strange to be one of the few "movement" conservatives left, the folks who still believe in state's rights small, local government, personal responsibility, character mattering, things like that. If you're one of the faithful, your national and state leadership was revealed as liars, with no moral principles and no spine. You've been abandoned after years of believing.

I really wish we had more libertarian (but not the absurdity of the libertarian party) party out there ... like some actual options along those lines.

Get me a Bull Moose Party!

Re: Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI

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Post by bediger4000 » Wed, May 14, 2025, 8:49 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #9

bediger4000 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It must feel strange to be one of the few "movement" conservatives left, the folks who still believe in state's rights small, local government, personal responsibility, character mattering, things like that. If you're one of the faithful, your national and state leadership was revealed as liars, with no moral principles and no spine. You've been abandoned after years of believing.

I really wish we had more libertarian (but not the absurdity of the libertarian party) party out there ... like some actual options along those lines. Get me a Bull Moose Party!

Seems to me that the few libertarians that stuck with their ideology are in the same boat as the movement conservative believers. A lot of the state level Libertarian Parties are Trump boosters now, a similar abandonment of principles as conservative leaders did.