A White House Power Grab on AI Would Be a Huge Mistake: Dave Lee

The Senate’s overwhelming rejection in July of a plan to ban states from passing regulations on artificial intelligence — the vote was 99-1 — is now set to be brazenly ignored. The White House is pushing for the measure to be revived and added to the National Defense Authorization Act. If that fails, and it’s a longshot, the president stands ready to sign an executive order essentially forcing it through anyway.

The measure would put the future of this critical technology — how it is developed and for whose benefit — in the hands of a few tech power players. Some of them posed together for a ...