Truthout: GOP Push to Ban State AI Laws Will Only Help Big Tech

In Tech Policy Press article debunking state AI law myths, Kara Williams, a law fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Ben Winters, director of AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, point out that big tech companies have repeatedly failed to honor their own promises to self-regulate. Williams and Winters argue that regulation can help innovation, not hinder it, and note that state transparency requirements typically are limited to basic information about when AI is used on a consumer. “If simple disclosures of this nature would be disastrous to any company,” they write, “it perhaps points to a deficiency in the product, not the regulation requiring the disclosures.” 

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