New Democrat Bill Calls For A Federal Agency To Create “Behavioral Codes,” Introduce “Disinformation Experts”
On May 18, two US senators introduced the Digital Platform Commission Act of 2023, a bill that seeks to give powers to a new federal agency that will set up a council to regulate AI, in the context of social platforms.
More precisely, the new body the Federal Digital Platform Commission would rule on what s termed as enforceable behavioral codes, and among those staffing it will be disinformation experts.
The move by the two Democratic senators Michael Bennet and Peter Welch seems to have come in concert with congressional testimony delivered by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, since the bill was presented shortly afterwards, and backs Altman s idea to form a new federal agency of the kind.
Altman had more thoughts on how all this should work the new agency, according to him, might be given the power to restrict AI development via licenses or credentialing.
What a perfectly hideous idea.