Republican governor asserts states' right to legislate AI
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Republican governor asserts states' right to legislate AI
""It's one thing if ... we're fighting China and you're developing your model, but once you start selling sexualized chatbots to kids in my state, now I have a problem with that, and I'm going to get involved there, and the Supreme Court is going to back me up on that," Cox said."
""We should be supporting these data centers -- it doesn't mean we should be handing out favors to these data centers," he said. "These companies have more money than any companies in the history of the world. They can build these things.""
""Let's use this technology to benefit humankind, and let's regulate it to make sure they don't destroy humankind. I don't think that's a contradiction. I think that's common sense, and I think that's where most Americans are," he said."
State authority should govern aspects of AI development and deployment to address safety concerns, particularly harms to minors such as sexualized chatbots. States should participate in implementing and deploying AI systems across sectors while federal policy supports American AI competitiveness. New data center construction to support increasing AI compute should be permitted but should not receive special favors from governments, since corporations can finance their own facilities. Updated energy laws that enable new production for large-load users can shield consumers from electricity price increases driven by AI computations. Regulation should enable technological benefits while preventing societal or existential harms.
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