Democratic state policymakers are fiercely criticizing a House GOP push to block states from regulating artificial intelligence—a legislative maneuver they say would expose more Americans to harms posed by the technology and amount to federal overreach.
“House Republicans are turning a blind eye to the real harms AI is already causing, especially discrimination, and trying to dismantle the only real protections Americans have: the ones states are actively advancing,” Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) told Bloomberg Government.
Colorado Rep. Brianna Titone (D), who sponsored the nation’s first law targeting bias in automated decision-making, warned that such a provision could result ...