Now she backs Trump again
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who wants to be Tennessee’s next governor, has, it seems to us, been all over the waterfront on how to handle artificial intelligence.
Back in June, she struck a deal on a moratorium against state and local artificial intelligence laws with Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas. The next day, she yanked her support, saying “we can’t block states from making laws that protect their citizens.”
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However, last week, she seemed to once again switch sides, saying she planned to introduce a bill that would codify President Donald Trump’s executive order on AI. The executive order says, “United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation. But excessive State regulation thwarts this imperative.”