<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="background-color:transparent">"Clarification: states have the authority to outlaw development of AI, but only IN THAT STATE"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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 prove that it hurt people.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> Not that it matters one bit. LLM AI systems exist that can run on a laptop. In any case, some of the major AI companies are located in CA Driving them out is not in California's interest or the AI companies. I seriously doubt such a bill would pass and not be vetoed by any governor. And if both happened, I suspect the courts would strike the law down.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Does anyone take exception to this analysis?</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Keith<br></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 9:45 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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>...Bernie Sanders was on the radio today demanding a 20 year prison sentence for anyone developing AI technology which endangers humanity. Who gets to tell him the office he is running for doesn't have that authority, nor does congress. But states do. Any one of the 50 states can legally outlaw AI development.<br>
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Clarification: states have the authority to outlaw development of AI, but only IN THAT STATE. California is developing an attitude against AI.<br>
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I can foresee Nevada becoming a very important state, because of its open-minded attitude toward power production, and what I think will be an open-minded attitude toward development of AI.<br>
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I recently toured West Virginia, family history. They are developing data centers bigtime there. They have water, they have coal, they have an eagerness to create jobs in the business of building data centers. Future big players: Nevada, West Virginia, Wyoming.<br>
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This place is ground zero for my own family history:<br>
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<a href="https://oilandgaswatch.org/facility/rec_d55gp3kc8hqvi9qsc9c0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://oilandgaswatch.org/facility/rec_d55gp3kc8hqvi9qsc9c0</a><br>
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Holden West Virginia. They have coal, they have natural gas in abundance, they have water, they have eager and hungry laboring class. Some locals are resisting, and I think I know why: they don't know anything about AI and don't want to change. But more of the locals want jobs. I predict the Adams Fork Harless Data Center will be built.<br>
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