Andrew Sage

This isn't theoretical.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anytime a landlord says anything or a real estate developer that says anything that suggests the thing they want to do is lower rent, they are lying.

You can tell because they don't fucking lower rents unless, like, a global pandemic happens.

Yeah.

Like, that's not how any of this works.

And...

This has been controversial.

Trump, before putting out the EO, tried to encourage the passage of a bill through Congress that would have done the same thing as the EO, right?

And would have actually had like more force of law behind it, basically making it illegal for states to have their own laws regulating AI.

That didn't pass because even Republicans don't really like that idea.

For one thing, states' rights is still supposed to be a pretty big part of the party.

Yeah.

But for another thing, there's like a lot of things that conservatives are really unhappy with in terms of A.I.

For example, it keeps exposing children to pornography and other things that kids shouldn't be exposed to.

For another thing, there's a lot of American jobs that are going to be lost as a result of or potentially could be lost as a result of.

AI slop automation of a bunch of industries.

And so there's even a significant amount of resistance among Republicans to this, which is why the bill didn't pass, right?

And Trump, when he announced this EO, basically sat down with like a chunk of the conservatives who were more critical of this, and I think basically bullied them into getting on board and saying, no, he promised us this won't restrict state levels to like improve safety for children, right?