Andrew Sage

The attorney general is supposed to establish this task force whose responsibility is to challenge state AI laws that are inconsistent with the policy set forward above, right?

That we need to be globally dominant in AI, right?

So this task force is supposed to go out and find state laws that it believes are like an onerous burden on the development of this technology.

Going along with this, within 90 days of the order, the Secretary of Commerce is supposed to do an evaluation of all state AI laws in order to like point out which ones this task force should go after.

And then the stick that this EO establishes is that if this task force decides that like a state AI law is in violation of our need to be dominant in AI, we can restrict state funding to things like the broadband equity access and deployment program, right?

Basically, they'll cut off federal funding for like broadband access in order to punish states that try to restrict or in any way, shape or form govern what people can use, what companies can use AI for.

And the primary thing this is all about, I know we all think about the stuff that, like, most people have more direct experience with, which is, like, all the slop, flooding the internet, the disinformation that's continuing to cook the brains of a lot of our peers and elders.

And just the fact that, like, it's making certain industries full of hardworking people a lot harder to exist because companies are just trying to replace quality work with absolute, like—

Slop.

Trash.

Yeah.

But really what this is about, and the primary focus of most of these state-level laws regulating AI, is the housing market, right?

There's a good article in Politico about this, written by Cassandra Dumais, but she notes that per a National Conference of State Legislatures analysis in July, there were more than 40 pending bills across the United States related to just AI in the housing sector.

And most of these bills are attempting to stop

landlords from using different AI programs to coordinate pricing.

Basically, there are a couple of different programs, the most prominent of which is called RealPage.

And what they do is landlords join these programs and they share information on like what they're

different properties cost, and then the AI knows what everybody is charging and can suggest that they charge higher prices, right?

Now, the way that this is supposed to work is that you as a landlord look out at what's publicly available about the prices of your competitors and look at what your customers are currently willing to bear and then try to set your prices and future price increases based on that.

What RealPage is doing is a legal collusion, right?