Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
99 problems but this bitch ain't one.
All my homies hate Raphael
This time
? I don't see them trying to sneak an AI regulation ban again anytime soon. This is about the strongest bipartisan support against anything I can recall in my life.
Many of the people that voted against this are to blame for many of the other problems we are about to be hit with.
However, of all the scary shit in that bill, this was one of the most concerning to me. Specifically in terms of irreversibility to the damage it would do, the creation of national AI surveillance databases being built across the country, and the kind of environmental and safety regulations that will have to be ignored in order to power them.
The closest thing to hope, I hold for my own state, is that I just hope whatever lesson we ended up serve as in future history books isn't on the same scale or worse than Chernobyl.
I can breathe a little easier knowing that the entire country won't be facing a mandatory federal law demanding they be more like Louisiana in terms of deregulation in order to make a terrible idea actually profitable, regardless of how many people it hurts.
I only use AI to make shitty furry porn. It needs to be regulated.
ah Ted Cruz... the infected pimple in the ass that is the GOP
Why is this foreign born person still in the US? Didn't Trump say he wanted to deport naturalized citizens? Deport Ted Rafael Edward Cruz back to Canada! Send him back!
After all the shit you're giving us to deal with in Canada this would be the final straw that leads to war. He's a product of your culture and his power comes from you, he's your creation.
Rafael Cruz hates Rafael Cruz so much that he voted against his own amendment.
lol he even voted against his own plan. Imagine being the schmuck who was the one dissenting vote
Wasn’t there someone else who created a bill and voted for it, but told others to vote against it?
“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
„Everyone hates Ted“
If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.
―Lindsey Graham
I think this is my favorite GOP quote of all time.
I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.
-Al Franken
"I do not like that man Ted Cruz..." - John Oliver
"Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
Isn’t it funny how Dems chased out Al Franken for that shitty photo, but Republicans rally behind their own sex pests?
"Everyone hated that"
If you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.
I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.
This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.
So what I'm hearing is this is a bill to distract from more important things and to delay.
Not really, the entire bill is the worst thing to happen to the USA in a hundred years, Ted Cruz's tiny portion was just so stupid that even the party of destruction disliked it.
But states rights? What happened to states rights?
states' rights to opress people was the full thought
States rights was never really an ideal (in general, if it's wrong to allow something in one state, it'd be wrong to allow it in the rest, after all). It was just a thing to bring out whenever the federal government disagreed with something they wanted but some states didn't. But now that they control the federal government, it becomes a liability, so they drop it.
I thought the 1 vote had to be the Zodiac killer Ted Cruz, but no:
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
Did he just not get the memo, or is he that paid off?
And how does anyone vote for something that's 99-1 unless you happen to be the first? Some things you should make a principled stand sure, but that's not this.
is that the self proclaimed black Nazi?
I don't think he'd won his election; I also think it was a local election, rather than a federal one? But, I'll admit, I hadn't been following his race very closely.
I don’t think so? Dude looks like he’d be a WASP if he wasn’t Catholic. Unless he was doing some internet sock puppet shenanigans or something.
Stop giving broadband funds globally, it's just squandered, it needs to be manually voted on and approved per project.
Agreed. Make them do the work first ffs or something. Tired of these "providers" getting free money for shit they dont even do.
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
🤣🤣🤣
So... Ted voted against his own bill?
Ted Cruz can go fuck himself.
So how much did this cost?
False, nobody can ever lose respect for Ted Cruz. There's none to lose.
Probably doesn't care, already made his paycheck after all
Was Ted the 1 vote or was he in Cancun for the roll call?
"i like ted cruz more than most of my other colleagues like ted cruz and i hate ted cruz"
This is not good news, because it was up to debate.
Efit: well, ok, it was Ted Cruz after all.
Some nuance I read recently: The argument from above is basically that they want Ai research to continue as it has national security value. Therefore, any limitations or regulations to AI research should only happen on a federal level.
The idea is that all states should share the same playing field so that any researchers do not have to treat states differently.
I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. This would have been the inverse of how a federal government is supposed to work. Rather than keeping individuals from being exploited at the state level, the exploiters are now at the federal level creating policy. They've had a plan in place since Trump's first term, and they don't want blue states interfering.
Governors of states are already looking to remove federal safety regulations to build small modular nuclear reactors in order to power these dumb fucking data centers they will likely be using to store very unethical surveillance data.
They are also planning to use AI to more efficiently build nuclear reactors. While removing federal oversight and safety regulations that have been in place for 50 years... What could possibly go wrong?
No, that's the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don't want any speed bumps from the states
Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there's talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby
I don’t buy it.
A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.
In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.
Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.
i honestly don't give af about states that like ai fuck them. ai should be abolished everywhere.
Ha!