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by polski-g 1092 days ago
AI will not be regulated in the US because the first amendment prohibits such regulation. Software is speech and is this protected per Bernstein v DOJ.
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You can distribute binaries as speech but the services you're offering as an API is a different matter, more interstate commerce, what you're allowed to sell as opposed to what you're allowed to say
"software is speech" .. if speech is taken to be solely a means of communication between humans, this statement has been untrue ever since Turing