[ExI] ten year ban on state ai regulations?

[spike at rainier66.com]

I am reading about the senate struggling to pass a budget.  They included in there a ten year ban on state-level AI regulation.  What I don’t understand is how states proposed to regulate AI.  The former VP and US presidential  candidate, whose name I cannot recall at the moment, explained to us what is AI in the famous “first of all, it’s two letters” speech.  We are told it is a kind of a fancy thing, and it is artificial intelligence.  It’s about machine learning.  The machine is taught.  The issue is what information is going into the machine (etc.)  Note that this was the US government’s person in charge of AI, who had not the foggiest clue what it is.

 

So now, there were state-level regulations on AI?  What would those be?  To have regulations on something, we would need to clearly understand what qualifies as AI, ja?  Now the federal government is proposing a ban on state-level regulations on AI.  But the fed does not have the authority to prevent a state from regulating something, unless there is a specific reserved power in the constitution allowing the federal government to do that.

 

So now we are back to states having the theoretical authority to regulate something that I can’t even imagine how it would define.

 

Ideas?

 

spike

 

 

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