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“Gavin Newsom just signed a new law putting California bureaucrats in charge of policing artificial intelligence. Instead of embracing freedom and innovation, California has once again chosen government micromanagement. Far too much is at stake in this AI race. We cannot let”
“Many of the recent AI-generated posts are unacceptable and a clear violation of my legislation—now law—the Take It Down Act, as well as X’s terms and conditions. These unlawful images pose a serious threat to victims' privacy and dignity. They should be taken down and guardrails”
In Statement A, Cruz criticizes California's AI regulation as 'government micromanagement' that threatens freedom and innovation, implying that government should not police AI. In Statement B, Cruz champions his own federal legislation (the Take It Down Act) as the appropriate mechanism to regulate AI-generated content and calls for 'guardrails' on AI outputs. The core tension is that Cruz condemns state-level AI regulation as overreach while simultaneously advocating for federal AI regulation under his own authorship, suggesting his objection is to who regulates AI rather than to AI regulation itself.
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