Washington (TNND) – The Trump administration is trying to persuade legislators to implement artificial intelligence regulations as it tries to overeat its development in a push that it hopes to overcome the American economy and maintain an advantage in a race against China to dominate industry.
Michael Krastios, director of the Office of the White House Science and Technological Policy, testified to the legislators on the Trump administration on Wednesday to keep the United States as a world leader in the development of AI. Trump has signed a series of decrees earlier this year as part of a “Action plan of AI” to accelerate its progress.
The plan included three pillars – accelerating innovation, building an infrastructure to support industry and making American hardware and software for AI the standard for the world.
“We are approaching the AI not out of fear, but with responsible audacity, supporting and encouraging the best innovative work in private industry and American universities,” Krastios told legislators.
Legislators and technological industry have sometimes been divided on how AI should be regulated on concerns about how to find a balance between safety and the development of industry growth.
The Trump administration has adopted a clear-off approach more and more for AI regulation and has made the reduction of federal rules and other administrative formalities a priority in its action plan.
“We have to develop this baby and let this baby thrive. We cannot stop it. We cannot stop him with politics, we cannot stop him with stupid rules,” Trump said in the July announcement.
The push of the congress to install railings for AI has lost its momentum this year, because it has gained popularity and industry has changed its agreement on the need for regulations to ensure its sure development. Industry leaders have also moved away resources from working with legislators to make railings to the fight against regulations at state and federal levels.
This occurs when technological companies have paid billions in the development of their own AI products in a change that industry considers the key to the future of the American economy and that legislators consider a national security imperative with Beijing also trying to become the world leader in its development. The Trump administration has also announced tens of billions of private investment in technological companies and in energy development to feed industry in the future.
The Republicans tried earlier this year to spend a 10 -year moratorium on the laws of states regulating AI as provision of their tax reduction and their expense package. The provision was finally withdrawn from the bill but remains a debate in Washington while legislators debate the opportunity to promulgate new railings for AI.
Without action of Congress, the States have been left to establish their own rules to respond to some of the concerns that support the proliferation of data confidentiality such as data and its potential damage to adolescents. The end result is a patchwork of rules that vary from one state to another, which, according to criticism, constitutes a regulatory environment more difficult to bypass companies.
Kratsios said that the administration is categorically opposed to allowing the current regulation system to continue.
“A patchwork of state regulations is anti-innovation. This makes American innovators to promulgate their technologies through the United States. It in fact presents and gives more power to large technological companies that have armies of lawyers who are able to respect the various regulations at the state level,” said Kratsios.
Supporters of a federal IA executive argued that the states that jumped into action should encourage congress to adopt more complete legislation.
“Part of this action should inspire us to consider us more closely, I mean Congress, to what we need in a full national law of AI,” said senator John Hickenlooper, D-COLO.
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, proposed a bill creating a “regulatory sandbox” so that the developers of AI can request derogations or modifications to the existing federal rules that he supports companies. His proposal aims to give companies a chance to identify the regulations obstructing efforts to create innovative technologies and give them a secure test field for software.
“A regulatory sandbox is not a free pass,” said Cruz at the hearing. “People who create or use AI must still follow the same laws as everyone. Our laws adapt to this new technology. ”
Even with the concerns about the preservation of innovation, there is still a certain momentum to promulgate data confidentiality and data and Protection for children using AI products.
Meta was under the spotlight In recent weeks, on its standards for AI chatbots after the reports of an internal policy document which included examples of acceptable conversations between his chatbot and the children “who are romantic or sensual”. OPENAI and Character.AI are also faced with a meticulous examination among the parents’ prosecution after the death of the teenagers after establishing relations with their chatbots.
The legislators have promised investigations to the Congress on Meta and called to put the requirements in place so that companies protected the children and their data, although no proposal has obtained enough support to pass one or the other chamber so far.
