- The Trump administration is building an ‘AI Litigation Task Force’ to eliminate AI regulations
- The task force will look to review and override state-implemented laws
- Trump claims winning the AI race is vital to national security
Experts have warned that artificial intelligence is developing much faster than any regulation can control, and that the flimsy safety laws we have in place are insufficient to protect users and wider society.
But even those flimsy protections could be overridden in the US, as new plans from the Trump administration see a new executive order giving the federal government unfettered power over states, creating an ‘AI Litigation Task Force’ which would look to challenge state AI laws.
The draft document states that the task force will seek to remove all barriers and regulatory frameworks for US AI leadership, underscoring the importance of the US leading the global technological revolution; ‘Our national security demands that we win this race.’
‘Difficult regulation’
A particular target of the task force will be California’s new AI safety laws, which the draft executive order calls ‘complex and burdensome’, claiming the bill is based on ‘the purely speculative suspicion that AI may “pose significant catastrophic risk”‘.
The legislation also notifies states that there will likely be restrictions on funding for those that have implemented AI laws that the administration deems burdensome, or that require AI models to “alter their truthful output, or that may compel AI developers or installers to disclose or report information in a way that would violate the First Amendment.”
It is important to note the timing of this order. It’s pretty widely expected that the AI bubble looks set to burst any minute, which in turn means that many tech companies (and otherwise) that have gone ‘all-in’ on AI now, it seems, are in danger of imminent collapse – and indeed the entire world economy seems to be circling the drain waiting for the first domino to fall.
So by eliminating guardrails and regulations, the Trump administration is most likely looking to soften that blow by putting users and consumers at risk through deregulated and unfettered AI with less transparency or accountability there to protect the public.
Via The edge
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