{"id":4880,"date":"2025-01-14T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-sen-curtis-says-congress-must-write-ai-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:19:39","slug":"gop-sen-curtis-says-congress-must-write-ai-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-sen-curtis-says-congress-must-write-ai-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sen. Curtis says Congress must write AI rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah called on Tuesday for Congress to set guardrails on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing that\u2019s holding things back is not money, it\u2019s the guardrails. When we don\u2019t put guardrails out, everybody\u2019s scared.\u201d Curtis said at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-stream\/politico-playbook-the-first-100-days\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO Playbook: The First 100 Days<\/a> event in Washington. \u201cMy guess is if we did our job, put the guardrails out there, free market would go crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His call comes as AI developers like OpenAI have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/27\/openai-washington-presence-00196056\" target=\"_blank\">pushed for more incentives<\/a> to speed up the construction of data centers and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) agreed, saying \u201cif there is a priority in the first 100 days, it is what do those guardrails look like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite bipartisan efforts in both chambers last session, Congress failed to pass any major AI bills. Bera added that he\u2019s determined to avoid the regulatory inaction of the social media era.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside the lawmakers, OpenAI\u2019s vice president of global affairs Chris Lehane paid short shrift to regulation, and emphasized the race against China to develop AI instead. The company has beefed up its D.C. team and this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/digital-future-daily\" target=\"_blank\">published an economic blueprint<\/a> for infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to play to win,&#8221; Lehane. &#8220;This is a zero-sum game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah called on Tuesday for Congress to set guardrails on artificial intelligence. \u201cThe only thing that\u2019s holding things back is not money, it\u2019s the guardrails. When we don\u2019t put guardrails out, everybody\u2019s scared.\u201d Curtis said at the Blue Light News Playbook: The First 100 Days event in Washington. \u201cMy guess is if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}