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Rick Weber

Capitol Hill, United States, Virginia

Reporter, Climate Extra at Inside EPA

Editor at Inside Cybersecurity

Writer at Inside AI Policy

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  • RAND examines AI growth tradeoffs of job losses versus beating China

    1 month ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    A new report by RAND Corp. examines the tradeoffs faced by policymakers from promoting the growth of artificial intelligence to beat China and the resulting job losses from those AI investments. A key question in making the related policy choices is the ease of automating tasks currently done by workers, the report finds.

  • OpenAI seeks court order revisions to restrict data access in New York Times lawsuit

    1 month ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    Tech leader OpenAI is asking a federal district court to revise a previous order to allow the company to take data management actions that would in effect delete information sought by the New York Times and other plaintiffs, in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit.

  • Absence of privacy law fuels House partisan fight over banning state AI rules

    1 month ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    The inability of Congress to enact a national privacy law over the past several years has fueled debate over new Republican-backed legislation to impose a moratorium on state AI rules and laws.

  • Rep. Obernolte cites China competition to justify moratorium on state AI rules

    1 month ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) argued a mandatory pause on state AI rules and laws is needed to counter China’s growing global tech influence by enabling the federal government to modernize its data systems with millions of dollars in artificial intelligence investments, during debate on the House reconciliation bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee. “Competition with China is very real.

  • House reconciliation bill’s AI provisions prompt debate over scope of state preemption

    1 month ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s reconciliation legislation, pushed by Republicans to fund President Trump’s tax cuts and other policy priorities, includes provisions to promote the use of artificial intelligence in federal data systems while banning state enforcement of AI rules, prompting debate among proponents and critics of the bill alike about the impacts of that federal preemption of state AI requirements.

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