Latest news with #moratorium
The Verge
18 hours ago
- Business
- The Verge
Anthropic's CEO wrote an op-ed against the proposed 10-year moratorium on AI regulation.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic's co-founder and CEO, writes in The New York Times that though he understands the motivations behind the proposal, 'a 10-year moratorium is far too blunt an instrument. A.I. is advancing too head-spinningly fast.' He's advocating for a federal transparency standard instead: 'Without a clear plan for a federal response, a moratorium would give us the worst of both worlds — no ability for states to act, and no national policy as a backstop.'
CBS News
a day ago
- Politics
- CBS News
San Bernardino considers ban on all fireworks ahead of Fourth of July
On Wednesday, the San Bernardino City Council discussed a potential moratorium on the sale of safe and sane fireworks ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. The city hopes the moratorium will allow it time to consider a permanent ban. "It's dangerous. It scares me," resident John Shollenberger said. "I've worked all my life for that house and I don't want it to go up in flames." Shollenberger said he typically stays home on the Fourth of July because he's worried about the reckless use of fireworks in the city. "I think what it stems from is that people get the idea that 'Oh, fireworks are legal in the city of San Bernardino, we can light off whatever we want!' No, that'd not it." The city said the safe and sane fireworks, which are exclusively sold by licensed nonprofits, often end up being used in a dangerous way, leading to increased police calls. "How are they making decisions on what you can and can not do?" resident Anthony George Lang Jr. said. "I can see if you're doing something unsafely." Lang said he disagreed with the potential ban because he loves lighting fireworks. The city generates about $94,000 a year from fireworks sales but spends $269,000 issuing permits and enforcing codes for them. It also burdens police officers when they are forced to respond to both illegal and legal fireworks calls. "I'm concerned with how they may impact our enforcement overall," San Bernardino Police Department Darren Goodman said. Goodman isn't sure the moratorium would make neighborhoods safer. He argued that safe and sane fireworks help his officers crack down on the more powerful and dangerous illegal fireworks. Tax revenue from safe and sane firework sales also funds operations against illegal fireworks, especially in 2024. "We went out, we did undercover operations, we did social media purchases of illegal fireworks, and we collected so many by the fourth," Goodman said. "By the time the fourth came around our calls for service for fireworks went down."
Malay Mail
17-05-2025
- Business
- Malay Mail
40 US states push back against AI moratorium in Trump's sweeping tax bill
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 — A mix of Democratic and Republican state attorneys yesterday called on Congress to reject a moratorium on regulating artificial intelligence included in US President Donald Trump's tax bill. Top attorneys representing 40 states signed a letter urging leaders in Congress to reject the AI regulation moratorium language added to the budget reconciliation bill. 'The impact of such a broad moratorium would be sweeping and wholly destructive of reasonable state efforts to prevent known harms associated with AI,' the letter states. 'This bill will affect hundreds of existing and pending state laws passed and considered by both Republican and Democratic state legislatures.' The amendment added by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to the budget reconciliation bill imposes a 10-year prohibition on states from enforcing any state regulation addressing AI or 'automated decision-making systems,' according to the state attorneys. 'The amendment added to the reconciliation bill abdicates federal leadership and mandates that all states abandon their leadership in this area as well,' the state attorneys general wrote. '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 notes that states have put in place laws designed to protect against AI-generated porn, deepfakes intended to mislead voters, and spam calls or text messages. Some state laws have also been crafted to prevent biases in AI models. 'These laws and their regulations have been developed over years through careful consideration and extensive stakeholder input from consumers, industry, and advocates,' the letter read. Republican fiscal hawks on Friday sunk a key vote on advancing the mega-bill that is the centerpiece of Trump's domestic agenda, in a significant setback for the US president's tax and spending policies. Trump is pushing to usher into law his so-called 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' pairing an extension of his first-term tax cuts with savings that will see millions of the poorest Americans lose their health care coverage. But a congressional Republican Party rife with divisions and competition within its rank-and-file has complicated the process, raising serious doubts that the sprawling package can pass a vote of the full House of Representatives next week. The budget committee's no vote is not the final word on the package, which will be reworked and sent back to the panel for more debate starting 10:00 pm on Sunday (0200 GMT Monday) and a fresh vote. — AFP
CBC
13-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
N.S. lifts longtime moratorium on new fish buyer and processor licences
As Michael Gorman reports, this includes a temporary moratorium that went into place in 2018 and one for groundfish buyer and processor licences that's existed since 1994.
ABC News
08-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
New Caledonia introduces 50-year ban on deep sea mining over 1.3 million square kilometres
New Caledonia's congress has approved a deep sea mining moratorium for 50 years in its Exclusive Economic Zone of 1.3 million square kilometres. The moratorium prohibits exploration for mining purposes and bans all exploitation of the seabed, but scientific research will be encouraged to better understand deep sea mining and the impacted ocean areas. The country is home to one of the largest nickel industries in the world, a mineral that is also extracted from the seabed. The announcement of the ban coincides with US President Donald Trump's executive order announcement that deep sea mining projects should be fast-tracked and explored. The New Caledonia government said it was a coincidence as it's been discussing a moratorium for two years. Jérémie Katidjo Monnier, the New Caledonian Environment Minister, said the 50-year ban was imposed to protect the exceptional marine area, which is home to over 9,000 species living on its coral reef.
