[ExI] Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.

[Keith Henson]

Outlawing abortion is not sound medicine. Ectopic pregnancy requires an
abortion or the mother dies. A state could outlaw antibiotics, do you think
this would be sound medicine?

Keith


On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 6:19 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> "Clarification: states have the authority to outlaw development of AI, but
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> >…I am not sure about that. States cannot pass capricious laws. I am
> fairly sure they would have to make a case that AI was somehow illegal or
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> Not at all, Keith, I agree.  What I meant was states have the authority to
> make those kinds of laws, not that they would do it.  They can (and might)
> make it unprofitable to put a data center in that state.  But other states
> will welcome data centers (and are doing so.)  They welcome the jobs, the
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> The federal government cannot legally restrict AI development, analogous
> to the SCOTUS decision that the fed cannot legally restrict states from
> making abortion law.  The SCOTUS decision striking down Roe vs Wade also
> protects states which want data centers and states which do not.  It makes
> the kind of law Bernie Sanders proposed illegal.  That critical decision
> about abortion strikes down the notion that the federal government can do
> anything it wants.  It clarifies: no it can’t.
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