That the people advocating for this and similar laws are statists that love regulation.
Seriously. no. It is remarkable the extent to which the opposite is true.
I’m keenly aware that many of the main advocates of this and similar regulations are basically old-school free-market, (more or less) minimal-government, libertarians, who discovered the unfortunate fact that the world seems likely to be destroyed by AI development.
(I’m one of them.)
But I would guess that, in addition to those people, this bill and others like it do have supporters who are in favor of increasing the power of the state, or hampering big tech, basically for the sake of it? There are a fair number of those people around.
I’m keenly aware that many of the main advocates of this and similar regulations are basically old-school free-market, (more or less) minimal-government, libertarians, who discovered the unfortunate fact that the world seems likely to be destroyed by AI development.
(I’m one of them.)
But I would guess that, in addition to those people, this bill and others like it do have supporters who are in favor of increasing the power of the state, or hampering big tech, basically for the sake of it? There are a fair number of those people around.