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Following midterm election gains, Reuters reports that the new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are preparing legislation targeting AI companies and data centers. The proposed measures reportedly include rules to curb energy-price increases tied to data center growth and a bill establishing product liability standards for AI developers.
An Anthropic researcher resigned publicly, warning that AI labs are 'gambling with our lives,' and two colleagues echoed the concern. In response, Senator Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce legislation banning the development of superintelligent AI.
The EU has enacted the AI Act, a roughly 50,000-word, 113-article law representing the first comprehensive AI regulation worldwide. The U.S., by contrast, has no federal AI law, instead relying on executive orders, agency guidance from bodies like NIST and the FTC, and a rapidly growing number of state laws, which more than doubled from 49 in 2023 to 131 in 2024.