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Senate Republicans Tie State AI Ban to Broadband Funding

Senate Republicans have repackaged the AI moratorium as a conditional broadband funding measure to satisfy Senate budget rules.

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Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic attends the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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Overview

  • The Senate text replaces an outright ban on state AI laws with a proposal that ties a decade-long regulation freeze to federal broadband funding eligibility.
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has decried the decade-long freeze as overly broad and champions a federal transparency requirement for AI developers to disclose testing and safety measures.
  • Industry players such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic already publish details on their AI testing protocols and support enshrining such disclosures in national law.
  • Several lawmakers across parties, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, caution that preventing state oversight could leave communities unprotected against unforeseen AI risks.
  • Lawmakers aim to pass the full tax and policy package, which extends 2017 rate cuts and revises spectrum auctions, by a self-imposed July 4 deadline.