Navigating AI Regulations: Emphasizing Benefits Over the Apocalypse
Plus antitrust, online safety legislation, and more…
AI: Andy filed comments on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) draft AI safety guidelines. He warned against overly strict restrictions on open-source models and recommended a marginal risk-benefit analysis for assessing risk.
In Reason, Corbin critiqued Yuval Noah Harari’s new book on AI. Tl;dr: Harari expects AI to destroy us, but scratch the surface and it’s just a wild guess. (The guy is terrible on free speech too. For more, read Corbin’s review!)
Antitrust: On a new Tech Policy Podcast, Geoff Manne, President of ICLE, returns—in a crossover episode with our Tech in the Courts series—to discuss the many, many flaws in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta. The discussion was also featured in this week’s GWU Regulation Digest.
Age Verification: Soon after a court issued an injunction against Utah’s law mandating age verification for social media companies, Techdirt referenced Ari's earlier Twitter exchange with Utah Governor Spencer Cox and his most recent reply.
Kids Safety: In The Texas Tribune, Ari describes some of the First Amendment scrutiny surrounding Texas’s H.B. 18, a bill that allows parents to monitor and restrict activity on social media platforms. The article was also syndicated in several local media outlets.
It can't all be doom and gloom, can it?