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Altman Ignored Warnings, Acted Only After Youth Suicide Publicly Reported
“Sam Altman has repeatedly refused to act on safety concerns raised by his own employees, but is now jumping to make basic fixes he could have made at any time only when the tragic death of a child, which he already knew about, was publicly reported. Sadly we know all too well that so-called safety […]
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Bloomberg: Meta & Google Lobbyists Fight to Pass the Buck on Kids Online Safety
Age Verification Battle Splinters Industry Groups, Prompts Covert Advocacy Group Funding “Meta, Google, and other Big Tech companies are playing a shameless cross-country blame game with warring age verification proposals as they try to pass the buck to one another while actively opposing broad bipartisan efforts to protect kids online. Although it may be refreshing […]
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TOP REPORT: Trump’s Tax Bill Gave Huge Handouts to Big Tech Monopolies
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report calling out Donald Trump’s big handouts to Big Tech platforms in his budget reconciliation bill. A full version of the report can be found here, and a list of key findings can be found below. “Guess those inaugural donations are starting to pay […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Applauds AI Moratorium Removal from Final Senate Budget
The moratorium was defeated by a 99-1 vote WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement after the AI moratorium was defeated and ultimately removed from the Senate’s budget reconciliation package. The amendment, led by Senator Marsha Blackburn and Senator Maria Cantwell, to strike the moratorium from the underlying bill was passed […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Condemns AI Moratorium Language
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement on the continued AI moratorium language. “At a time when new details emerge every day about Big Tech’s untested AI assistants and chatbots causing harm to people, especially kids, Congress should be encouraging more oversight, not AI amnesty. This terrible deal all but […]
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ROUND-UP: 10 Things Conservatives Hate About Congress’s AI Moratorium
Why do conservatives hate the proposed moratorium on states’ rights to legislate AI that embattled industry lobbyists are desperately scrambling to keep in the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill? Let us count the ways: Infringes states’ rights: “I personally don’t think we should be setting a federal standard right now and prohibiting the states from doing […]
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REPORT: The OpenAI Files Document Broken Promises, Safety Compromises, Conflicts of Interest, and Leadership Concerns
View the full report here WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project and the Midas Project released “The OpenAI Files,” an investigative report documenting the turbulent past decade at OpenAI as the organization has grown from an idealistic nonprofit into an unaccountable Big Tech giant. The report documents hundreds of sources that show how […]
