Cruz blamed “external interests”
After the compromise had fallen apart, the Senate 99-1 voted for the Blackburn amendment to remove the AI provision from the budget law. Senator Thom Tillis (RN.C.) cast the only vote against the amendment.
“Cruz eventually discovered on Tuesday behind Blackburn's amendment and acknowledged that” many of my colleagues would rather not vote on this issue, “said De Hill. Cruz said that the five -year moratorium had support from President Trump and” protected children and protected the rights of creative artists, but external interests resist that deal. “
However, Blackburn was quoted that “they were unable to come to a compromise that our governors, our state laws, our lawyer generals and, of course, house members who have expressed concern about this language would protect … What we know is this body that they cannot legislation on emerging technology.”
Cantwell pointed out that many government officials from both large parties oppose the Cruz plan. “Despite various revisions by its author and misleading guarantees about its true impact, state officials from all over the country, including 17 Republican governors and 40 state lawyers -general, also, too, [as] Conservative and liberal organizations – from the Heritage Foundation to the Center for American Progress – led to the harmful proposal, “said Cantwell's office.
Cantwell and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) Had also submitted an amendment to remove the AI moratorium of the bill. Markey said yesterday that “the so-called compromise of Blackburn-Cruz is a wolf in sheep clothing. Despite the Republican efforts to hide the true impact of the AI moratorium, the language still enables the Trump government to use federal broadband finance against the pastor of Tech.”
During a recent press conference, Cantwell said that 24 states started last year with “somehow regulating AI, and they have adopted these laws that fulfill a gap while we are waiting for federal action.” Yesterday she called the Blackburn/Cruz compromise “a different giveaway for technology companies” that gives “AI and social media a brand new shield against disputes and state regulations.”
