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Big Tech company supports a lobby campaign to adopt a 10-year ban on US states that regulate artificial secret services in a controversial step that has divided the AI industry and the Republican party of Donald Trump.
Lobbyists who act on behalf of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are asking the Senate to adopt a decades of moratorium for individual states in order to lead their own efforts to legislation, according to people who are familiar with the steps.
The provision was passed as part of the US representative of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful” budget law last month. The Senate hopes to reveal its version this week to adopt legislation by July 4.
Chip Pickering, a former congress member and managing director of Incompashas campaigned for the proposal for the members of his Tech Trade Association, which include leading companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google as well as smaller data, energy and infrastructure companies and law firms.
“This is the right policy at the right time for American leadership,” Pickering told Financial Times. “But it is just as important in the race against China.”
The Incompas trading group started the AI competition center (AICC) in 2024 for lobby legislators and supervisory authorities. At the beginning of the year the Cloud Division of Amazon and the Meta tied together The AICC subgroup heated as debates about AI rules and the EU introduced a number of measures to control the sector.
Google Parent Alphabet and Meta refused to comment. Microsoft and Amazon did not respond to inquiries about comments.
Critics say that Big Techs attitude is about ensuring their dominance in the race for the development of artificial general intelligence, which are generally understood as models that exceed human abilities in most areas.
“Responsible innovations should not fear laws for irresponsible practices,” said Asad Ramzanali, director of the KI and Tech Directive at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator at Vanderbilt University.
“(It is) a power gripper of Tech-Bro-Ligarchen who try to concentrate even more prosperity and power,” said Max Tegmark, a co-professor and president of the Future of Life Institute, a non-profit association that is committed to AI regulation.
The proposed moratorium has also divided the Tech sector and the Republican politicians who have expressed concerns about the ban on states of monitoring the powerful technology that have the potential to cause social and economic upheavals.
Proponents argue that the destiny is necessary to prevent a number of inconsistent regional rules, suffocate innovations and cause the United States to lose the soil to China.
Sam Altman, Chief Executive from Openai You have a document.
AI security activists such as Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei have warned that it could have catastrophic social consequences if the Silicon Valley competes in order to publish more and more powerful models.
The Republicans, who urge the proposal, now try to find out whether it corresponds to the Arcania rules of the Senate, which is prescribed that each provision must have a budget effect so that it must be included in a so -called “budget reconciliation”. The party uses tactics so that they can adopt the bill without democratic voices.
Ted CruzThe top republican of the Senate Trade Committee has proposed a problem bypass: states that do not meet the provision would not have to be promoted for billions of federal financing in order to extend broadband networks to under -supplied rural areas.
However, there is little political consensus on how the field can be moved quickly, and so far no meaningful federal regulations have been passed for tests or data protection.
“You don’t want the country in the world of the world to go back to AI,” said Republican Senator Thom Tillis in an interview. “If you suddenly have 50 different regulatory or legal framework, how can someone who cannot understand at his mind that this will be an obstacle?”
“I don’t like doing something that limits the skills of the states,” said Republican Senator Steve Daines. “But here there may be some wisdom, as this could lead to a patchwork nature of the regulation with AI that could hinder and slow down the United States.”
Other Republican senators like Josh HawleyAuthor of a book called The tyranny of great technologyand Marsha BlackburnThe moratorium declines that a law of Tennessee supports that defends the music industry of its state against non -authorized AI uses.
“We have no idea what the AI will be capable of in the next 10 years, and it is potentially dangerous to give him free admission and bind states” ” Marjorie Taylor Greene Posted on X. “This must be moved out in the Senate.”
