Thank you, CHT team. Congress is listening to the wrong voices. Sam Altman complaining that state laws are slowing him down should have been an indicator that the product is faulty (and therefore it requires state laws), not the policies.
Thank you so much for all the work you do. It really helps inform the way I teacher any STEM subject to middle school students.
Regarding this news, what are actions that you recommend? That would always be helpful at the end for me so I can just take action. I appreciate when I'm given any link with information so I can take action.
The EU had already legislation in place in 2023 to protect citizens from deception, lies and scams. This government is interested in enriching themselves and the people, corporations and nations brownnosing them with billions of dollars.
States should have the RIGHT to pass laws concerning these rapidly developing technologies. That AI companies fear state laws will be restrictive is NO reason to wipe away our right to restrict AI. Unfettered AI could do a LOT of damage in 10 years...
My state (Utah) is currently trying to pass laws to protect children from the known harms of social media. AI is the tip of the ice burg and it is insane that states would be federally bound from creating state level legislation that would enable them to protect their citizens from any harms caused by AI. Send this story to all of your local congressmen, news stations and news papers. Just google the names of your local news stations with the words "news tips". It will take you to where you need to send your message. I simply gave a two line overview of the content of this post, and then added a link to this post.
Now you have alerted us, why not follow with what we can do, if anything more than contacting our representatives? I feel that in the middle of the chaos going on, this might be slithered through without people hearing about it? We need a targeted approach.
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Can we use this copy to write to our congresspeople, do we have your permission? This statement is great, but grassroots pressure should help, no?
Yes please use it
Thank you, CHT team. Congress is listening to the wrong voices. Sam Altman complaining that state laws are slowing him down should have been an indicator that the product is faulty (and therefore it requires state laws), not the policies.
Thank you so much for all the work you do. It really helps inform the way I teacher any STEM subject to middle school students.
Regarding this news, what are actions that you recommend? That would always be helpful at the end for me so I can just take action. I appreciate when I'm given any link with information so I can take action.
For example, check out this post https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJj9lFqPwVX/?igsh=ZGUzMzM3NWJiOQ%3D%3D
Super easy script with information on rep's
The EU had already legislation in place in 2023 to protect citizens from deception, lies and scams. This government is interested in enriching themselves and the people, corporations and nations brownnosing them with billions of dollars.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence
States should have the RIGHT to pass laws concerning these rapidly developing technologies. That AI companies fear state laws will be restrictive is NO reason to wipe away our right to restrict AI. Unfettered AI could do a LOT of damage in 10 years...
AI is dangerous, people who are in the know see the future and it's pandora's box being opened.
Thank you, CHT! This is the perfect reply to my recent message about this moratorium. Everyone, contact your Congresspeople and use this for prompts!!
Here’s a campaign on Resistbot I found if you want to quickly sign and send to your Congress reps:
https://resist.bot/petitions/PKZFZA
Thank you for sounding the alarm on this.
STEPS YOU CAN TAKE:
My state (Utah) is currently trying to pass laws to protect children from the known harms of social media. AI is the tip of the ice burg and it is insane that states would be federally bound from creating state level legislation that would enable them to protect their citizens from any harms caused by AI. Send this story to all of your local congressmen, news stations and news papers. Just google the names of your local news stations with the words "news tips". It will take you to where you need to send your message. I simply gave a two line overview of the content of this post, and then added a link to this post.
Now you have alerted us, why not follow with what we can do, if anything more than contacting our representatives? I feel that in the middle of the chaos going on, this might be slithered through without people hearing about it? We need a targeted approach.
Send it to you states congressmen, and to all of your local newspapers and tv news stations.
Thank you for keeping us informed as to these disturbing efforts for AI development to be (even more) unaccountable. Outrageous.
Thank you!
I tried to tune into this https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/communications-and-technology-subcommittee-ai-in-the-everyday-current-applications-and-future-frontiers-in-communications-and-technology
But it is Privet, sure they are just getting the sales pitch of their life. If Ai seems too good to be true, it is.
https://energycommerce.house.gov/representatives
these people are stupid if they believe this stuff.
I fear that, if passed, this will become a template for other restrictions on state-level legislation.
What's the best way to follow whether this provison remains in the legislation as the bill is considered by the Senate?