Politics

Is AI preemption dead in Congress?

Axios reports that the Congressional negotiators hammering out the National Defense Authorization Act have grown “cold” on attaching language to the spending bill that would ban state-level AI laws. What hasn’t helped is the latest proposal being shopped around from the White House, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-AL), which reportedly proposes “straight preemption language to override most state-level AI laws without any additional federal regulatory framework”.

A year-end push to override state AI laws is officially dead.

The brief panic caused by an attempt to shoehorn AI preemption into a must-pass defense bill is over. But this won’t be the last you hear of this. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told reporters “we’re still looking at other places” to work it in, saying there’s still interest.

ChatGPT allegedly encouraged a violent stalker.

Brett Michael Dadig is being charged with 14 counts of “cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and interstate threats,” 404 Media reports. Dadig claims that OpenAI’s ChatGPT told him to keep producing his women-hating podcast because it gave him more “haters,” which led to more money, and to keep going to places where “wife types” meet up.

Another bid to block state AI regulation has failed… for now

Republicans’ attempt to ban state AI regulations was removed from the defense bill after bipartisan opposition, underscoring tensions between tech-industry demands, consumer protection concerns, and Trump’s push for sweeping federal preemption.

ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says

Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.

Congress warned that NASA’s current plan for Artemis “cannot work”

“The Artemis III mission and those beyond should be canceled.”