California Serves Up Nightmare for Innovation with AI Legislation
Plus age verification, major questions, and more…
AI: We joined a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom expressing our continued concerns about SB 1047. Recent amendments don’t address the main issue: the bill regulates model development, not its misuse. Axios also wrote about the letter.
Event Series: It’s not too late to register! Join Berin today at 1:00 pm ET for the inaugural event in our “Tech in the Courts” series, where we’ll examine the legal limits of common carriage. Also, be sure to sign up for our second event next week, where Corbin will explore the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta.
DSA: Last week, Reason, Techopedia, and over 50 local media outlets highlighted our letter to EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, which raised concerns about the Digital Services Act (DSA) potentially curtailing freedom of expression.
Podcast: On a new Tech Policy Podcast, Corbin, Ari and Santana engaged in some summer-doldrums kvetching about recent and upcoming Supreme Court Internet speech cases. (Come on, justices, decide something!)
Administrative Law: If you didn’t attend last week’s TPI Aspen Forum (or even if you did!), check out the video of Corbin’s panel on the demise of Chevron deference, the rise of major questions, and the approach of nondelegation.
Space Law: The Dispatch highlighted Jim’s 2023 paper urging Congress to reform America's commercial space regulatory system to prevent adversarial nations like China from undermining American space leadership.
Free Speech: Later today, Ari is inspiring students at the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic's beginning-of-term boot camp, and being hosted by the school's Federalist Society chapter for a discussion on tech policy and the First Amendment.
WILSOOOOONNNNN!