Sarah Myers West
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first heard Jul 2026
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It has both attempted to create deepened regulatory carve-outs that inhibit the ability of
states to use their jurisdiction to protect their own constituents.
And then equally has taken this approach where the administration has doubled down on providing support to particular businesses, both through trying to broker deals internationally on behalf of particular AI companies under the export AI executive order.
allocating federal lands for data center construction, providing billion dollar loans to some AI companies for data center build out.
So I would say that this is an administration that has really put its thumb on the scale in favor of certain interests within the AI industry.
There is certainly an important role for Congress to play here.
One is ensuring that there's adequate technology staffing and resourcing to be able to enforce the laws that we already have on the books before they even get to strengthening legal frameworks that enable us to have meaningful oversight and accountability.
I think one of the most significant gaps is that given the major economic and political capital that AI firms have amassed, these are some of the largest and most well-resourced companies that we've seen really ever.
It makes it very hard to apply the law in a way that's going to create real friction for them.
For a lot of these companies, an FTC fine can be a line item that they provide for a
in a budget.
And so I think it's really crucial that congressional leaders not only act, but act in ways that are going to be meaningfully changing the behavior of firms that have demonstrated themselves not to be thinking about the needs and interests of the broader public.
it remains an area that is somewhat vague.
And it can be tricky with the generation of AI systems that are in deployment right now, because a lot of these systems are designed in such a way that it's hard to attribute responsibility.
It's hard to say definitively, this input led to this output.
We know that because it was trained on this data, it caused this discriminatory outcome.
Some of this is by design, too.
These companies used to publish out research that gave the broader public information about what kinds of systems they were building, what data they were trained on, things that are really important for the broader public interest.
They've become increasingly opaque to the public and to regulators as time has gone on, making it even harder for courts to be able to enforce the law.
I think we need to dismiss this fiction that regulation harms innovation.
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