Really, what’s ten years give or take, holding off legislation to control AI? And, why would we want to?
Trump’s trumpeted and, to many, alarming, “One Big Beautiful Bill” is now headed to the Senate. Bundled inside is language saying no state or local government may enforce regulatory control over AI for a decade. If AI isn’t able to laugh yet, this might push it over the edge.
Four million, seventy-three thousand, four hundred minutes can seem an eternity focusing on privacy when businesses want to put profits first. Apparently, that’s what the last nine years felt like to many who are determinedly lobbying the EU Commission for a break. Reports are these GDPR naysayers may get wishes granted, if, as privacy activists fear, Brussels bends to lobbying pressure.
The Show Me State of Missouri is now the first in the US to censor content moderation. Pushing the limits of free speech, and despite Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, Missouri under its Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, will no longer allow Big Tech to regulate screen content. Instead, it will allow users to pick who they want to moderate content, alleviating the need to be shown anything they don’t already think.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.