The Senate strikes the provision of the AI of the GOP bill after a tumult of the States
A proposal aimed at dissuading states to regulate artificial intelligence for a decade was deeply defeated in the United States Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure in the major bill on tax alleviation of President Donald Trump and discounts of expenses of expenses
Washington – A proposal to dissuade the States to regulate artificial intelligence for a decade was deeply defeated in the United States on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure in the major bill on tax alternatives by President Donald Trump and expense reductions.
The Senate voted 99-1 to propose the provision of the AI of legislation after weeks of criticism from republican and democratic governors and state representatives.
Initially proposed as a 10 -year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI, legislators later linked it to federal funding so that only states that fell on AI regulations are able to obtain grants for wide -band Internet infrastructure or AI.
A final republican effort to save the provision would have reduced the period to five years and sought to exempt certain favorite laws from AI, such as those protecting children or artists from country music against harmful tools of AI.
But this effort was abandoned when Senator Marsha Blackburn, a republican of Tennessee, joined forces with the Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington on Monday evening to present an amendment to strike the whole proposal. The vote on the amendment occurred after 4 am Tuesday as part of a night session while the Republican leaders sought to obtain support for the bill on the reduction of tax while postponing other proposed amendments, mainly Democrats trying to defeat the package.
Supporters of an AI moratorium had argued that a patchwork of state and local AI is obstructing progress in the AI industry and the ability of American companies to compete with China.
Some eminent technological leaders praised the idea after the Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who heads the Senate Commerce Committee, launched it during a hearing in May.
But state and premises legislators and AI security defenders argued that the rule is a gift for an industry that wishes to avoid responsibility for its products. Led by the Governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a majority of GOP governors sent a letter to the congress between it.
A group of parents of children is also attractive for legislators to make the disposition.
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O’Brien reported to Providence, Rhode Island.
