The White House is dangling something the technology industry has wanted for years: a federal block on state AI laws and the price is a national age verification push that chips away at anonymous internet use.
The administration is negotiating a federal preemption of state AI laws in exchange for its support of key tech policy priorities from the Hill, according to Axios, and the bills it would back include the Kids Online Safety Act, the NO FAKES Act, and age verification requirements.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is steering the talks. “Senator Blackburn is spearheading the negotiation with the White House to finalize legislative text of an AI preemption package that includes protections for kids, creators, and communities through the Senate version of KOSA, the NO FAKES Act, and age verification requirements,” a Blackburn spokesperson said.
The administration kept its own language vague. “The White House continues to proactively engage across government and industry,” a White House official said.
Strip away the framing and the age verification piece asks something concrete of you. To prove you are old enough, you upload a government ID, submit to a face scan, or let a service study your behavior closely enough to guess your age. None of those confirms age and nothing else. They confirm identity and they leave a record that outlives the check.
The internet that once let you be a username starts to demand your legal name, your face, or your documents.
The bigger trade sits underneath the child-safety language. States have been writing their own AI rules, some addressing how companies collect biometric data and automate decisions about residents.
Preemption would freeze that, removing one of the few places people have to push back on how these systems handle their data.
The maneuvering also signals which bill is fading. A bipartisan proposal from Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) isn’t the likely vehicle for AI policy in this Congress. That bill would preempt state AI laws for three years and require certain developers to address risks before releasing models.
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What will the coming dark age look like?
If major war or not. Think of a modern gilded age with harsh capitalism on top and communism on the bottom. Some nations may have a taste of fascism but very little as rich evil run AI will favor chaos of mixed populations of divide and rule, in the western republics.
At first the republic will be the face of nations but that will vanish by created wars and emergencies etc. Think of in decades, or 100 years or so.
As like in the UK, people everywhere in existance crisis must sieze control over modern communications technologies or lay down and die. The question is will the democracy haters stand in the way? As all the “ists” hate real democracy, harsh capitalists, communists or fascists, etc all fake elections. In truth all are run by rich evil money.
The future can look like hunger games or communism in China or mixtures etc. Even skynet will rise up in some fashion.
Will any support the people making better democracy/government designs? Of course evil wants to change government design for the worse. This is coming and fast, those massive AI centers are not for real democracy.
To IW , how does it look? Deep state getting weaker as the republic throwing all the evil ones in jail, or the other way around? It looks the evil is slowly winning over the people and nations via the bought off whore republics. Right?
So what is the plan ? Cracking the whip for another election to get in more populist leaders? Obviously that is just a rear guard action of when in defeat.
The AI is coming on, it will be republics as the face and AI running all in the background, AI with management getting stronger as the republic disappearing. Until? Of course the obvious the rise a true kind of 1776 movements of better designs of government. At least this is the only way out of the coming dark age.
Total bull 💩. And of course the rhino Republicans would be pushing it. It’s all about control. If they gave a damn about the children they would publish every single Epstein file. We know that will never happen. Can’t remember what guest it was that Alex had on a couple of so weeks ago but said that Trump would release the Epstein files right before the midterms. Just about dropped my phone I was laughing so hard.
Donald Trump is 1000x worse than Barrack Obama, and I absolutely hated Obama!
It is long past time for a very violent, quick, and decisive yet out of control revolution in this country, whereby millions are unalived!!!
Screws over the American people. That’s about the only thing the Whitehouse does right.
Your government HATES you.
The govt has hated us since the Whiskey Rebellion of 1793, but no one has organized well enough and trained enough to overthrow it since then!
even me?????
Yes, you especially, since the govt hates heterosexual males more than any one group!
Trump The Great!……………………..Fraud