Joe Allen

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Well, Steve, sitting in back of this legislation is overwhelming polling that Americans want some kind of regulation.

That...

The Fabrizio Ward poll that was just released and funded by Building America's Future, it shows that both Harris voters and Trump voters would prefer to see one national standard over state preemption.

Now, the way the questions are framed perhaps led them in that direction, but one way or the other, what it shows is this is something, I mean, you know, Building America's Future is funded by Elon Musk, right?

Kingpin tech bro.

And they're admitting that Americans overwhelmingly do want to see some kind of government intervention, whether it's on a national or state level or both.

They don't want to see tech companies basically regulating themselves.

And just downstream of that, we figure out how government responds.

Right now, we announced a few days ago that Marsha Blackburn, she has already put forward

a draft framework for her Trump America AI Act.

This is basically a combination of most of the laws that I think are quite reasonable at the state level and also those laws that have been introduced at the national level, such as Josh Hawley's Guard Act or Hawley's Risk Assessment Act.

What we see now is the beginning of a long battle over how artificial intelligence is going to be guided by government regulation, by laws, by standards set by OSTP.

All of these things are in play.

What we know for sure is whatever it is,

that people like Marc Andreessen or Elon Musk, people like Sam Altman are going to go for at this point.

They're gonna have to work around the government.

So I think that even if Marsha Blackburn's Trump America AI Act does represent the first step in a long process of actually having some kind of legislation with teeth, we're gonna see all of these different tech bro interests

trying to get in there to either take the teeth out or to find ways to use that regulation to their advantage, building a moat, so on and so forth.

But, you know, everything from SB53 in California, which basically holds tech companies liable for damage.