WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee introduced a new bill under the stated goal of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) tools that in reality raises serious concerns about censorship and protected free expression.
“We appreciate the Committee’s goal, but the CHATBOT Act takes the same unlawful identity mandate framework NetChoice has successfully challenged in court across the country—including ID gates, requirements to hand over documentation proving parent-child relationships, and state-supervised access to lawful speech—and ports those onto AI tools. While the medium is newer, the censorious constitutional defect is not. Essentially, the bill runs right into protected rights about which the Supreme Court has been clear: new technology does not create a First Amendment exception,” said Amy Bos, NetChoice Vice President of Government Affairs.
Bos continued: “We hope to work with the Committee on lawful rules to protect Americans and our children on tech tools, including those we have detailed in NetChoice’s Digital Safety Shield for America.”
You can find the bill here.
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