“All right. So Steve Scalise, as reported by PunchBowl News, is saying that led by Ted Cruz, they are pushing to introduce something like the moratorium that we beat down last summer. The moratorium last summer would have blocked states from any regulation on artificial intelligence that would impede national agendas on building AI.

So what we’re talking about, starting from day two of Trump’s presidency, people who want to basically put up the new mosque, put data centers in as many places as possible in America and across the world to build artificial general and then artificial superintelligence.

But just put all that aside. What you have right now are kids killing themselves at the urging of AI. You have schools rolling it out everywhere, hospitals rolling it out everywhere, government agencies rolling it out everywhere. Zero meaningful federal legislation. And you have states all over the country trying their best to at least control, if not block, the worst effects of this.

And so what would happen if they slide this in, assuming it has the same teeth as the previous attempts, it would block or impede any state trying to put age gating on apps, trying to save data from being hoovered up by these companies, especially children, and intellectual property theft, which is a huge legal battle that the federal government right now has done nothing to address.”

Joe Allen