Peloni: How is it that there is so little uproar over this 17-line amendment to the Federal system in the US around the vital topic of regulating AI? It is impossible to consider how this passage was added to the bill, unless we consider the reality that those who themselves would face state level regulations are actually writing the regualtions. We call this sort of carve out by self interest regulatory capture, and it was expected that this sort of self dealing was to be eliminated by Trump’s return to Washington, not reinforcing it. This passage must be removed from any legislation being considered before the Congress.
Most Congress people have 18 full time staff and 4 part time staff. MTG said she voted for this BBB with worms in it and didn’t know this federal grab of states’ rights was in it. Well, why didn’t she parcel out this over 1000 page bill and have her staff go over it before she cast her vote? And beside this, the Constitution lists the enumerated powers of the federal government, which are very few. The rest belong to the states.
Gay marriage, abortion and slander and libel all belong to the states, but only abortion has been returned to the states. Gay marriage and slander/libel has been unconstitutionally taken from the states. NYTs v. Sullivan has been mentioned several times by Clarence Thomas as needing to be overturned.
As for the government disallowing the states to regulate or change the federal AI for 10 years, once again, this is NOT one of their enumerated powers and is unconstitutional. Our congress is filled with attorneys, yet none of them seem to read these bills, much less our Constitution.
@radiok@comcast.net
I 100% agree
I don’t really understand the implications of this addendum. Can you elaborate? Thx.
@Mkf
There is a clause in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill which prohibits any regulation or oversight at the state level. This violates the federal system established in the Constitution in which only those authorities explicitly listed are restricted from the States. Since AI is not listed in the Constitution as an area of exclusive authority restricted to the Federal govt, the Congress chose to use the BBB in an attempt to expand the authority of the Federal govt, despite the fact that this is clearly an unconstitutional attempt to amend the Constitution, and thus violate the Federal system established by the Founding Fathers.
On a more practical level, this clause prevents the states from exercising due dilligence in protecting the rights of the citizenry from the deployment of AI for a period of 10yrs, during which every aspect of society, security, economy and liberty will be re-written to include the use of AI.
If for no other reason than this 17 line clause, this bill must be blocked.