Minnesota needs to defy Trump’s AI executive order
From Monday:
President Donald Trump is drawing swift criticism after announcing he would be signing an executive order aimed at clamping down on state governments’ powers to regulate the artificial intelligence industry…
Although specifics on the Trump AI executive order are not yet known, a draft order that has been circulating in recent weeks would instruct the US Department of Justice to file lawsuits against states that pass AI-related regulations with the ultimate goal of overturning them.
Emily Peterson-Cassin, policy director at watchdog Demand Progress, slammed Trump over the looming AI order, which she said was a giveaway to big tech industry billionaire backers such as David Sacks, a major Trump donor who currently serves as the administration’s czar on AI and cryptocurrency.
“David Sacks and Big Tech want free rein to use our children as lab rats for AI experiments and President Trump keeps trying to give it to them,” she said. “Right now, state laws are our best defense against AI chatbots that have sexual conversations with kids and even encourage them to harm themselves, deepfake revenge porn, and half-baked algorithms that make decisions about our employment and health care.”
(Common Dreams)
Let ‘em file their lawsuits. If I was a state legislator I’d happily welcome high-profile fights with the Trump administration, given the public’s well-grounded suspicion of anything that has to do with artificial “intelligence” and those behind it. We’d be talking a big political (as well as ethical) positive as the megalomaniacal greedhead AI bros look to keep screwing up schools, creating massive safety issues, amplifying delusions, dotting the landscape everywhere with atrocious data centers, and wrecking the economy. Yeah, I know it all sometimes seems farcical, but it certainly isn’t.
Never forget that the most notorious and despicable members of the Big Tech broligarchy put Trump into the White House. They need to be crushed like bugs. No mercy.
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