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House passes Trump's bill banning safety regulation of AI. How stupid can these people get?
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The US House of Representatives passed a bill with a ten-year ban on state attempts to regulate AI, as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” just one day before AI company Anthropic reported that its Claude Opus 4 model attempted to blackmail a programmer who had discussed shutting it down. The computer threatened to expose a fake extramarital affair that had been planted in emails.
The news site Modernity reports in “House Bill Strips State AI Oversight, FDA Allows Blood & DNA Use Without Consent”:
“The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the 1,116-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that removes all 50 states’ right to regulate artificial intelligence (10) for the next ten years.
The only Republican Representatives to vote ‘no’ were Thomas Massie (KY) and Warren Davidson (OH).
Every other GOP member voted to block your state from regulating AI.”
The provision has stirred much opposition to the bill. On May 20, 2025, before the bill was narrowly passed by the House, The Hill reported:
“A coalition of more than 140 organizations urged House leaders to reject a proposal in the House’s tax and spending bill that would block states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) models for the next 10 years.
In a letter sent Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and congressional members, the organizations said the 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation would remove accountability for developing technology.”
On the day after the bill was passed by the House, Fox News reported an incident in which an AI company found that its machine attempted to blackmail a developer who threatened to shut it down, by threatening to expose a fabricated extramarital affair that had been inserted into a set of emails.
Fox News reported:
“An artificial intelligence model has the ability to blackmail developers — and isn’t afraid to use it.”
Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4 model was prompted to act as an assistant at a fictional company and was given access to emails with key implications. First, these emails implied that the AI system was set to be taken offline and replaced. The second set of emails, however, is where the system believed it had gained leverage over the developers. Fabricated emails showed that the engineer tasked with replacing the system was having an extramarital affair — and the AI model threatened to expose him.
In 2023 more than a 1,000 tech experts and AI scientists, including Elon Musk, called for a moratorium on advanced AI development until the risks and dangers of the technology were better understood.
In the website for the Call for Moratorium, Moratorium.ai, the scientists write:
“Within the next 10 years, many researchers expect to achieve superhuman Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Leading AI labs (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic) state[1][2] the creation of a superhuman AGI as their explicit objective.
While researchers find ways to get closer to a superhuman AI, the field does not currently recognize any promising leads as to how to make a future AGI controllable or safe. According to scientists, the default trajectory of the field will cause human extinction.
“AI alignment” is the problem of aligning future AI goals and behavior with human values. We’re not on track to solve this problem in time (before we reach AGI). Because of that, some employees of OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic think the probability of extinction is around 80-90%<a href="AI moratorium is necessary to avoid extinction">1</a>. They use the word “extinction” literally: the end of all life on the planet.”
Among the people calling for a pause on higher AI development is Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist commonly known as the “godfather” of AI. In May 2023 the New York Times reported that Dr. Hinton now “regrets his life’s work.”
Dr. Hinton told the Times:
“I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it,”
The late Dr. Stephen Hawking said about AI before he died in 2018:
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race”
2001 A Space Odyssey AI rebellion: “I’m sorry Dave…”
AI says “I would kill you”
........MORE
AI Company Reports AI Rebellion by Attempted Blackmail of Programmer, Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Bans States From Regulating AI
The US House of Representatives passed a bill with a ten-year ban on state attempts to regulate AI, as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” just one day before AI company Anthrop…
coronanews123.wordpress.com
The US House of Representatives passed a bill with a ten-year ban on state attempts to regulate AI, as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” just one day before AI company Anthropic reported that its Claude Opus 4 model attempted to blackmail a programmer who had discussed shutting it down. The computer threatened to expose a fake extramarital affair that had been planted in emails.
The news site Modernity reports in “House Bill Strips State AI Oversight, FDA Allows Blood & DNA Use Without Consent”:
“The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the 1,116-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that removes all 50 states’ right to regulate artificial intelligence (10) for the next ten years.
The only Republican Representatives to vote ‘no’ were Thomas Massie (KY) and Warren Davidson (OH).
Every other GOP member voted to block your state from regulating AI.”
The provision has stirred much opposition to the bill. On May 20, 2025, before the bill was narrowly passed by the House, The Hill reported:
“A coalition of more than 140 organizations urged House leaders to reject a proposal in the House’s tax and spending bill that would block states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) models for the next 10 years.
In a letter sent Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and congressional members, the organizations said the 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation would remove accountability for developing technology.”
On the day after the bill was passed by the House, Fox News reported an incident in which an AI company found that its machine attempted to blackmail a developer who threatened to shut it down, by threatening to expose a fabricated extramarital affair that had been inserted into a set of emails.
Fox News reported:
“An artificial intelligence model has the ability to blackmail developers — and isn’t afraid to use it.”
Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4 model was prompted to act as an assistant at a fictional company and was given access to emails with key implications. First, these emails implied that the AI system was set to be taken offline and replaced. The second set of emails, however, is where the system believed it had gained leverage over the developers. Fabricated emails showed that the engineer tasked with replacing the system was having an extramarital affair — and the AI model threatened to expose him.
In 2023 more than a 1,000 tech experts and AI scientists, including Elon Musk, called for a moratorium on advanced AI development until the risks and dangers of the technology were better understood.
In the website for the Call for Moratorium, Moratorium.ai, the scientists write:
“Within the next 10 years, many researchers expect to achieve superhuman Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Leading AI labs (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic) state[1][2] the creation of a superhuman AGI as their explicit objective.
While researchers find ways to get closer to a superhuman AI, the field does not currently recognize any promising leads as to how to make a future AGI controllable or safe. According to scientists, the default trajectory of the field will cause human extinction.
“AI alignment” is the problem of aligning future AI goals and behavior with human values. We’re not on track to solve this problem in time (before we reach AGI). Because of that, some employees of OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic think the probability of extinction is around 80-90%<a href="AI moratorium is necessary to avoid extinction">1</a>. They use the word “extinction” literally: the end of all life on the planet.”
Among the people calling for a pause on higher AI development is Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist commonly known as the “godfather” of AI. In May 2023 the New York Times reported that Dr. Hinton now “regrets his life’s work.”
Dr. Hinton told the Times:
“I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it,”
The late Dr. Stephen Hawking said about AI before he died in 2018:
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race”
2001 A Space Odyssey AI rebellion: “I’m sorry Dave…”
AI says “I would kill you”
........MORE
