The White House said on Friday that Congress should \u201cpreempt state AI laws\u201d that it views as too burdensome, laying out a broad framework for how it wants Congress to address concerns about artificial intelligence without curbing growth or innovation in the sector. <\/p>\n
The legislative blueprint outlines a half-dozen guiding principles for lawmakers, focusing on protecting children, preventing electricity costs from surging, respecting intellectual property rights, preventing censorship and educating Americans on using the technology.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes as state governments have forged ahead on their own regulations for AI while civil liberties and consumer rights groups lobby for more regulations on the powerful technology. But the industry and the White House have pushed back, arguing that a patchwork of rules would hurt growth. Trump signed an executive order in December to block states from crafting their own regulations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was in response to a growing patchwork of 50 different state regulatory regimes that threaten to stifle innovation and jeopardize America\u2019s lead in the AI race,\u201d said White House AI advisor David Sacks in a social media post Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sacks said the next step is to work with Congress to turn the administration\u2019s principles into federal legislation. <\/p>\n
Four states \u2014 Colorado, California, Utah and Texas \u2014 have already passed laws that set some rules for AI across the private sector, but the White House is calling for \u201cstrong federal leadership\u201d to make sure the public can trust how artificial intelligence is being used in their lives. The state-level laws include limiting collection of certain personal information and requiring more transparency from companies. <\/p>\n
As backlash against data centers has increased along with rising power prices, the White House had previously stepped up pressure on AI companies and the power sector to do more to address the issue \u2014 including having AI companies sign voluntary pledges earlier this month to build their own power generation plants.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration says it doesn\u2019t think Congress should preempt all state regulatory powers over AI, including enforcement of general laws against AI developers, \u201cto protect children, prevent fraud, and protect consumers.\u201d It also says Congress shouldn\u2019t interfere with local authorities in deciding where to place data centers and other AI infrastructure, or how states procure their own AI tools for law enforcement or education. <\/p>\n
However, it says states \u201cshould not be permitted to regulate AI development,\u201d shouldn\u2019t penalize AI developers for a third party\u2019s unlawful conduct using their product, and \u201cshould not unduly burden Americans\u2019 use of AI for activity that would be lawful if performed without AI.\u201d<\/p>\n
The framework recommends against wading into the legal fights between artists and creators and the technology companies that have ingested huge amounts of copyrighted works to build AI systems that can generate new text, images and sound.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration \u201cbelieves that training of AI models on copyrighted material does not violate copyright laws,\u201d according to the document, but acknowledges \u201carguments to the contrary exist and therefore supports allowing the Courts to resolve this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are dozens of lawsuits pending from writers and publishers, visual artists, music record labels and others. Judges have largely sided with AI developers in allowing for the \u201cfair use\u201d of copyrighted works to create something new, but some have questioned how the materials were obtained. A federal judge in September approved a $1.5-billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train its chatbot.<\/p>\n
Kim and O\u2019Brien write for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House said on Friday that Congress should \u201cpreempt state AI laws\u201d that it views as too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2672,2007,103971,2080,12837,7,9,8,1804,1752,38177,14299,1285,13049,59019,10020,2805],"class_list":["post-228847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-administration","tag-ai","tag-ai-developer","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artist","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-company","tag-congress","tag-datum-center","tag-enforcement","tag-growth","tag-other-state","tag-principle","tag-state-government","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}