Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday mentioned she won’t vote for the “big, beautiful bill” protecting President Trump’s legislative agenda when it comes again to the Home due to a provision that might forestall states from passing legal guidelines to manage synthetic intelligence (AI).
“When it comes to AI and regulation, when we get to vote on this bill again, I will be voting no because of this clause,” Greene mentioned throughout a Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee listening to.
The listening to, titled “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” was centered on the problem drawing Greene’s ire with the invoice.
Greene has beforehand outlined her opposition to the AI a part of the invoice and acknowledged she was not conscious of the part when the invoice was first handed by the Home.
“Now, while this bill was going through committees and being discussed in the House of Representatives, no one on either side of the aisle that I know of, Republican or Democrat, brought up this particular clause on one single page in an over 1,000-page bill,” she mentioned Thursday.
The AI a part of the invoice requires a moratorium of 10 years on state legal guidelines regulating AI fashions, methods or automated choice methods. This could additionally embrace the enforcement of present and future legal guidelines on the state stage.
If the Senate makes any modifications to the Home-passed invoice, as anticipated, the Home might want to vote once more on the laws.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can afford few defections on the invoice given his tight majority, making Greene’s stance all of the extra vital.
Greene says it will be improper to stop states from writing legal guidelines on AI.
In a put up on the social platform X earlier this week, the Georgia Republican acknowledged that permitting AI “free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.”
