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Can you even watch this video in Montana?
Well, maybe not in 2024 if a new law banning TikTok within the state takes effect. Makena Kelly can explain more.
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Another bill to childproof the internet just made it out of committee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee just approved the STOP CSAM Act, a bill that would penalize tech companies for not removing child sexual abuse material from their platforms once alerted to it.
The committee has been on a roll teeing up floor votes on these kinds of bills over the last few weeks. While removing CSAM is an admirable goal, many of these bills have civil liberties experts spooked over their potential to chill encryption adoption and free speech online.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be testifying before the Senate next week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is hauling in Altman for a hearing titled “Oversight of AI” next Tuesday to help Congress regulate the budding artificial intelligence industry.
Congress, regulators, and the White House have all been sounding the alarms over AI’s potential harms in recent weeks.
White House rolls out plan to promote ethical AI
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Leaders from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI just met with Biden officials to talk about AI.
The meeting was billed as a “frank discussion,” and the White House and Congress seem keen on advancing AI legislation — they announced new investments and bills this week. If anything particularly novel happened, though, Kamala Harris’s vague public statement about the meeting isn’t telling:
“As I shared today with CEOs of companies at the forefront of American AI innovation, the private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and security of their products. And every company must comply with existing laws to protect the American people.”
White House rolls out plan to promote ethical AI
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The EARN IT Act is ready for a Senate vote... again.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the controversial EARN IT Act, an attempt to fight child sexual abuse by adding new conditions to Section 230, and teed it up for a vote on the Senate floor.
Yes, the committee did this once before in 2020, but that version never made it to a final vote — we’re still waiting to see if this version does any better. And civil liberties groups still oppose the bill, saying it could have disastrous implications for queer kids and encryption.
The EARN IT Act is back in Congress
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