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When Vice -President JD Vance leaves Paris After he advised Europe to reduce the regulations and promote AI innovation, that effort is already in danger. A series of silent maneuvers by the BIDEN administration, important technological established operators and a non-profit-funded non-profit called The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) threatens to impose radical AI regulations in US states after President Donald Trump it limited framework of the previous administration.
On January 23, Trump Signed Executive Order 14179, “Take away barriers for American leadership in artificial intelligence, “ Replacing the command-and-control approach to Biden by a pro-innovation mandate to defend our AI leadership against rivals such as China. But the remains of the old policy survive in non -profit organizations such as FPF, which are busy drawing up state notes that reflect President Joe Biden’s agenda.
Confirm public data FPF was obliged to almost $ 5 million from federal agencies in FY24 and 25 under Biden. Last year, the FPF website promoted those subsidies to support the “White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence”, FPF since the reference scrubbed but the Federal Grant database is still linking the money to those in the meantime.
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Various states, with sponsors connected to FPF, including Texas, Virginia, Connecticut and Colorado, have introduced almost identical AI accounts with fuzzy concepts such as “Algorithmic discrimination” and “risky” systems. These vague rules offer regulators ample discretion, so that not only startups are deterred, but also fast -growing technology companies that cannot distract valuable resources to comply with the overhead costs.
Vice President JD Vance gives a speech during the plenary session of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in the Grand Palais in Paris, France, 11 February 2025. (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
Venture Capitalist Marc Andreessen, fresh from meetings with Biden, described the AI ​​vision of the former president as “the most alarming” he has ever encountered-full of the idea that a new regime regime can and should be advanced, advanced technology. Progressive activists have been preparing for this for a long time: the links have been ready for years of “safetyist” NGOs to join new agencies, in the conviction that they only know how to send AI “responsible”. The law, on the other hand, never took care of supervisors to defend market freedom. That imbalance means that every new regulatory body would probably be manned by those who want to expand the government power.
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This pathology of planning reflects the misguided idea that new and evolving systems require centralized supervision. But Hayek’s “knowledge problem” reminds us that no central authority can collect and process the scattered information needed to efficiently arrange a complex, changing system. That is why sweeps up accounts loaded with ambiguous mandates the door to favoritism, so that well -established operators navigate the bureaucracy, while smaller innovators are sidelined.
Even if a bill exempts certain startups, the compliance resistance effectively cement the status quo technology giants enjoy a legal baking lipele. In the words of the famous University of Chicago economist George Stigler, “regulations are taken over by the industry and is mainly designed and operated for its advantage.”
Proponents claim that these measures tackle ‘algorithmic damage’, but real damage – slander, fraud, revenge porn – are already illegal. States can simply update criminal codes to tackle problems such as synthetic sexual images without creating full bureaucracies. Legislers in places such as Texas would do better to observe their own instincts for a small government and to prevent them from duplicating harsh rules for BIDEN era.
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If these bills continue to spread, America risks a Balkanized regulatory my mine field in which Big Tech ironically is the most profit. Instead, we need targeted, minimal interventions – if present – instead of wide frameworks made under a federal policy brought in discredit. Our global competitiveness in AI and the vitality of our entrepreneurial ecosystem is in balance.
States must resist the temptation to create new offices for left -wing bureaucrats and activists, otherwise they will harass builders who can provide a golden age of American innovation.
Joe Lonsdale is an entrepreneur and investor. He was co-founder of Palantir Technologies and the Venture company 8VC. He is the chairman of the University of Austin (UATX) and the Cicero Institute, a national policy group.
