Sen. Ted Cruz and Phil Gramm on DPA Misuse in the AI Executive Order
March 26, 2024 | Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former Senator Phil Gramm published an article in the Wall Street Journal decrying the Biden Administration’s overreach in the AI Executive Order:
Particularly painful is Mr. Biden’s use of the Defense Production Act of 1950 to force companies to share proprietary data regarding AI models with the Commerce Department. That a law passed during the Korean War and designed for temporary national security emergencies could be used to intervene permanently in AI development is a frightening precedent. It begs for legislative and judicial correction.
What’s clear is that the Biden regulatory policy on AI has little to do with AI and everything to do with special-interest rent-seeking. The Biden AI regulatory demands and Mr. Schumer’s AI forum look more like a mafia shakedown than the prelude to legitimate legislation and regulatory policy for a powerful new technology.