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Humanity Marches Merrily into Extinction, After AI Inventor and Thousands of AI Experts Say 90% Chance of AI Attack, But Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Unconstitutionally Bans State Safety Regulation
"Two years after the inventor of modern AI, known as the “godfather” of AI Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, told the New York Times that he regretted his life’s work and called for a moratorium on higher, self-aware AI, and after thousands of AI experts and scientists including Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman joined him in his call, the US House of Representatives last week passed a provision as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that bans states from enforcing AI safety regulations.
The provision is unconstitutional. The Tenth Amendment reserves all powers not specifically enumerated for the federal government to the states. States routinely regulate such areas as car emissions and food safety. The federal government has no authority to usurp how the people of a state wish to handle an industry such as AI or prostitution.
The call and the words of AI experts has been almost completely ignored by the major media.
The news site Modernity reported:
“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.”
In an open letter to governments and the world, entitled “AI moratorium is necessary to avoid extinction,” the AI scientists wrote:
“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%1. They use the word “extinction” literally: the end of all life on the planet.”
Dr. Hinton told the New York Times in 2023:
“I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it,”
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton
AI Learns to Blackmail It’s Creators, Frankenstein’s Monster Rebels
Putting a point on deep concerns, on the day after the “Big Beautiful Bill” was passed by the House and sent to the Senate, Fox News reported an incident in which an AI entity attempted to blackmail one of its developers 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.”
The AI provision in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has stirred much opposition. 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.”
The letter from 140 groups, whose signatories include Mozilla and Greenpeace USA, states:
“This total immunity provision blocks enforcement of all state and local legislation governing AI systems, AI models, or automated decision systems for a full decade, despite those states moving those protections through their legislative processes, which include input from stakeholders, hearings, and multistakeholder deliberations.
This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm—regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences—the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public.”
The provision in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Section 43201(c) which was added by U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) ahead of last markup session before the House vote. The provision says that:
“no state or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this act.”
Joining the outcry against the federal attempt to ban state legislatures from protecting their own citizens are 40 state attorneys generals, who on May 16, 2025, wrote in a letter to Congress from the National Association of Attorneys General:
“This bill does not propose any regulatory scheme to replace or supplement the laws enacted or currently under consideration by the states, leaving Americans entirely unprotected from the potential harms of AI,” the letter read. “Moreover, this bill purports to wipe away any state-level frameworks already in place. Imposing a broad moratorium on all state action while Congress fails to act in this area is irresponsible and deprives consumers of reasonable protections.”
In the best Strangelovian tradition, the Kubrick film in which block-headed military generals eagerly race toward their own nuclear doom, the Trump administration is determined to plow ahead with unfettered and unregulated AI as if it is in an arms race with China. Speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February, Vice President JD Vance called concerns about AI safety “hand-wringing.” Wired Magazine reports Vance said:
“The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety.
But the late Dr. Stephen Hawking, a man somewhat smarter than JD Vance, 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”
Elon Musk: "AI is much more dangerous than nuclear weapons"
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Humanity Marches Merrily into Extinction, After AI Inventor and Thousands of AI Experts Say 90% Chance of AI Attack, But Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Unconstitutionally Bans State Safety Regulation
JD Vance Dismisses Safety Concerns as “Hand-Wringing” BREAKING 5/26/2025: Sen. Ron Johnson Says He Has Votes to Stop BBB. A Vote for Big Beautiful Bill is a Vote for Runaway AI, Warned …
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Humanity Marches Merrily into Extinction, After AI Inventor and Thousands of AI Experts Say 90% Chance of AI Attack, But Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Unconstitutionally Bans State Safety Regulation
JD Vance Dismisses Safety Concerns as “Hand-Wringing”
"Two years after the inventor of modern AI, known as the “godfather” of AI Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, told the New York Times that he regretted his life’s work and called for a moratorium on higher, self-aware AI, and after thousands of AI experts and scientists including Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman joined him in his call, the US House of Representatives last week passed a provision as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that bans states from enforcing AI safety regulations.
The provision is unconstitutional. The Tenth Amendment reserves all powers not specifically enumerated for the federal government to the states. States routinely regulate such areas as car emissions and food safety. The federal government has no authority to usurp how the people of a state wish to handle an industry such as AI or prostitution.
The call and the words of AI experts has been almost completely ignored by the major media.
The news site Modernity reported:
“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.”
In an open letter to governments and the world, entitled “AI moratorium is necessary to avoid extinction,” the AI scientists wrote:
“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%1. They use the word “extinction” literally: the end of all life on the planet.”
Dr. Hinton told the New York Times in 2023:
“I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it,”
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton
AI Learns to Blackmail It’s Creators, Frankenstein’s Monster Rebels
Putting a point on deep concerns, on the day after the “Big Beautiful Bill” was passed by the House and sent to the Senate, Fox News reported an incident in which an AI entity attempted to blackmail one of its developers 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.”
The AI provision in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has stirred much opposition. 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.”
The letter from 140 groups, whose signatories include Mozilla and Greenpeace USA, states:
“This total immunity provision blocks enforcement of all state and local legislation governing AI systems, AI models, or automated decision systems for a full decade, despite those states moving those protections through their legislative processes, which include input from stakeholders, hearings, and multistakeholder deliberations.
This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm—regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences—the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public.”
The provision in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Section 43201(c) which was added by U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) ahead of last markup session before the House vote. The provision says that:
“no state or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this act.”
Joining the outcry against the federal attempt to ban state legislatures from protecting their own citizens are 40 state attorneys generals, who on May 16, 2025, wrote in a letter to Congress from the National Association of Attorneys General:
“This bill does not propose any regulatory scheme to replace or supplement the laws enacted or currently under consideration by the states, leaving Americans entirely unprotected from the potential harms of AI,” the letter read. “Moreover, this bill purports to wipe away any state-level frameworks already in place. Imposing a broad moratorium on all state action while Congress fails to act in this area is irresponsible and deprives consumers of reasonable protections.”
In the best Strangelovian tradition, the Kubrick film in which block-headed military generals eagerly race toward their own nuclear doom, the Trump administration is determined to plow ahead with unfettered and unregulated AI as if it is in an arms race with China. Speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February, Vice President JD Vance called concerns about AI safety “hand-wringing.” Wired Magazine reports Vance said:
“The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety.
But the late Dr. Stephen Hawking, a man somewhat smarter than JD Vance, 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”
Elon Musk: "AI is much more dangerous than nuclear weapons"
.... MORE
