Why do you think that the same federal bureaucrats who incompetently overregulate other industries will do a better job regulating AI?
Chevron deference means that judges defer to federal agencies instead of interpreting the laws themselves where the statute is ambiguous. It’s not so much a question of overregulation vs underregulation as it is about who is doing the interpretation. For example, would you rather the career bureaucrats in the Environmental Protection Agency determine what regulations are appropriate to protect drinking water or random judges without any relevant expertise?
One consequence of blowing up Chevron deference is that one activist judge in Texas can unilaterally invalidate FDA approval of a drug like mifepristone for the entire country that’s been safe, effective, and available on the markets for decades by substituting his own idiosyncratic opinion instead of deferring to the regulatory agency whose entire purpose is to make those kinds of determinations.
Government agencies aren’t always competent but the alternative is a patchwork of potentially conflicting decisions from judges ruling outside of their area of expertise.
If the EPA would say: “You are not allowed to build any new buildings in city X, because that will reduce drinking water quality” you have to think about whether this is a power that the EPA should have or shouldn’t have because there are tradeoffs between drinking water quality on the one hand and other public goods.
Having a law that specifies what kind of actions the EPA is allowed to take to improve drinking water quality instead of just letting the EPA to do whatever it wants makes sense.
The company will also contribute to local education and preservation efforts — including preparing a historical context report of the events of the Mexican War and the Civil War that took place in the area as well as replacing missing ornaments on a local historical marker.
With regulations like this, it seems there’s a lot of regulatory overreach and it would be useful to reign it in.
Chevron deference means that judges defer to federal agencies instead of interpreting the laws themselves where the statute is ambiguous.
Which is as it should be, according to the way the US system of government is set up. The legislative branch makes the law. The executive branch enforces the law. The judicial branch interprets the law. This is a fact that every American citizen ought to know, from their grade-school civics classes.
For example, would you rather the career bureaucrats in the Environmental Protection Agency determine what regulations are appropriate to protect drinking water or random judges without any relevant expertise?
I would much rather have an impartial third party determine which regulations are appropriate rather a self-interested bureaucrat. Otherwise what’s the point of having a judicial system at all, if the judges are just going to yield to the executive on all but a narrow set of questions?
Government agencies aren’t always competent but the alternative is a patchwork of potentially conflicting decisions from judges ruling outside of their area of expertise.
Which can be resolved by Congress passing laws or by the Supreme Court resolving the contradiction between the different circuit courts.
Chevron deference means that judges defer to federal agencies instead of interpreting the laws themselves where the statute is ambiguous. It’s not so much a question of overregulation vs underregulation as it is about who is doing the interpretation. For example, would you rather the career bureaucrats in the Environmental Protection Agency determine what regulations are appropriate to protect drinking water or random judges without any relevant expertise?
One consequence of blowing up Chevron deference is that one activist judge in Texas can unilaterally invalidate FDA approval of a drug like mifepristone for the entire country that’s been safe, effective, and available on the markets for decades by substituting his own idiosyncratic opinion instead of deferring to the regulatory agency whose entire purpose is to make those kinds of determinations.
Government agencies aren’t always competent but the alternative is a patchwork of potentially conflicting decisions from judges ruling outside of their area of expertise.
If the EPA would say: “You are not allowed to build any new buildings in city X, because that will reduce drinking water quality” you have to think about whether this is a power that the EPA should have or shouldn’t have because there are tradeoffs between drinking water quality on the one hand and other public goods.
Having a law that specifies what kind of actions the EPA is allowed to take to improve drinking water quality instead of just letting the EPA to do whatever it wants makes sense.
The FAA requires SpaceX to:
With regulations like this, it seems there’s a lot of regulatory overreach and it would be useful to reign it in.
Which is as it should be, according to the way the US system of government is set up. The legislative branch makes the law. The executive branch enforces the law. The judicial branch interprets the law. This is a fact that every American citizen ought to know, from their grade-school civics classes.
I would much rather have an impartial third party determine which regulations are appropriate rather a self-interested bureaucrat. Otherwise what’s the point of having a judicial system at all, if the judges are just going to yield to the executive on all but a narrow set of questions?
Which can be resolved by Congress passing laws or by the Supreme Court resolving the contradiction between the different circuit courts.