Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote
arstechnica.com
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
  • lemmylommy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    180·
    18 days ago

    “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a removed in my life.”

    • John Boehner

    „Everyone hates Ted“

    • Donald Trump
    • Davriellelouna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      17 days ago

      If you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.

      I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.

      • His father owns an oil company in Canada.
      • He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were Bush family kids.
      • He attended Harvard University and Princeton
      • His wife Heidi Cruz is a top executive at Goldman Sachs

      This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        10·
        18 days ago

        You have to remember it’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. As I always say, we’re all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          17 days ago

          I honestly don’t understand how he still gets elected here. I would cry systematic election fraud in Texas but the majority of my parents generation seemingly doesn’t vote at all. But their parents who just watch Fox News all day sure fucking do.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      18 days ago

      Not really, the entire bill is the worst thing to happen to the USA in a hundred years, Ted Cruz’s tiny portion was just so stupid that even the party of destruction disliked it.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
      11·
      18 days ago

      States rights was never really an ideal (in general, if it’s wrong to allow something in one state, it’d be wrong to allow it in the rest, after all). It was just a thing to bring out whenever the federal government disagreed with something they wanted but some states didn’t. But now that they control the federal government, it becomes a liability, so they drop it.

  • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    18 days ago

    Why is this foreign born person still in the US? Didn’t Trump say he wanted to deport naturalized citizens? Deport Ted Rafael Edward Cruz back to Canada! Send him back!

    • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
      24·
      18 days ago

      After all the shit you’re giving us to deal with in Canada this would be the final straw that leads to war. He’s a product of your culture and his power comes from you, he’s your creation.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        17 days ago

        Yes everyone know’s a Canadian’s shit doesn’t stink and the country definitely doesn’t have it’s own fascism problem.

        Definitely.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          6·
          17 days ago

          Canada has its own problems for sure, but Ted Cruz’s family moved to Texas when he was 4. He’s definitely more a product of American culture than Canadian culture.

            • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
              8·
              17 days ago

              Canadians are, generally speaking, taking plenty of action against Trump and the United States. Travel and purchase boycotts for instance.

              We’re not the only victims, no, but you have to clean up your own mess. When given the choice to follow you, Canadians recently chose not to.

              Instead of getting butthurt at internet comments go out into the streets

          • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            16 days ago

            Hey, don’t blame us for Murdoch. He’s Australian, he only bought US citizenship in his fifties in order to spread his hate better.

            … Saying that becoming American helped with that doesn’t really strengthen my case here, does it?

            • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
              2·
              16 days ago

              Yeah this thread ended up being more hostile to regular Americans than I intended but US culture and US global hegemony are the things that attract and amplify the shitty people from around the world.

              USA is the final boss of capitalist imperialism and the people have completely lost control over the reins. It’s now a matter of when they actually say enough is enough, be it now or after Fascism runs its course and hurts millions of others around the world as well.

          • PlaidBaron@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            Wow you sure know a lot about Canada. You must have been here a long time, huh? Surely your opinion is based on experience and a deep understanding of our culture. There’s no way that opinion is based on internet discourse.

            Canadians are very well aware of how we’ve treated and continue to treat Indigenous people. There’s an active movement towards reconciliation and self governance. Canadians are not ignorant of the history or the current situation. You are.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    48·
    18 days ago

    I thought the 1 vote had to be the Zodiac killer Ted Cruz, but no:

    The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.

    Did he just not get the memo, or is he that paid off?

  • FelixCress@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    18 days ago

    The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.

    🤣🤣🤣

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    18 days ago

    lol he even voted against his own plan. Imagine being the schmuck who was the one dissenting vote

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      Wasn’t there someone else who created a bill and voted for it, but told others to vote against it?

      • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        17 days ago

        ? I don’t see them trying to sneak an AI regulation ban again anytime soon. This is about the strongest bipartisan support against anything I can recall in my life.

        Many of the people that voted against this are to blame for many of the other problems we are about to be hit with.

        However, of all the scary shit in that bill, this was one of the most concerning to me. Specifically in terms of irreversibility to the damage it would do, the creation of national AI surveillance databases being built across the country, and the kind of environmental and safety regulations that will have to be ignored in order to power them.

        The closest thing to hope, I hold for my own state, is that I just hope whatever lesson we ended up serve as in future history books isn’t on the same scale or worse than Chernobyl.

        I can breathe a little easier knowing that the entire country won’t be facing a mandatory federal law demanding they be more like Louisiana in terms of deregulation in order to make a terrible idea actually profitable, regardless of how many people it hurts.

          • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            17 days ago

            Fair enough. That’s never been a doubt to me. I still don’t understand how the Zodiac killer could hold office as long as he has, but as long as he’s got power, he’s going to keep trying to destroy this country.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    19 days ago

    Some nuance I read recently: The argument from above is basically that they want Ai research to continue as it has national security value. Therefore, any limitations or regulations to AI research should only happen on a federal level.

    The idea is that all states should share the same playing field so that any researchers do not have to treat states differently.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      23·
      18 days ago

      No, that’s the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don’t want any speed bumps from the states

      Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there’s talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby

    • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      I don’t buy it.

      A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.

      In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.

      Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

      I’m sorry, but that’s bullshit. This would have been the inverse of how a federal government is supposed to work. Rather than keeping individuals from being exploited at the state level, the exploiters are now at the federal level creating policy. They’ve had a plan in place since Trump’s first term, and they don’t want blue states interfering.

      Governors of states are already looking to remove federal safety regulations to build small modular nuclear reactors in order to power these dumb fucking data centers they will likely be using to store very unethical surveillance data.

      They are also planning to use AI to more efficiently build nuclear reactors. While removing federal oversight and safety regulations that have been in place for 50 years… What could possibly go wrong?