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[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

📅 June 16, 12 PM ET:

Concerns over AI companions and children are driving calls for new regulation. 💻

Join ITIF's panel of experts from @CenDemTech, @futureofprivacy, @CatoInstitute, & @RSI for a conversation on the tradeoffs of proposed chatbot safety legislation.

Register here:
https://t.co/GuWSFEQb34

[Jack Nicastro @jack_g_nicastro]

AICOA has been reintroduced.

In my first short explainer video for @ITIFdc, I explain why the American Innovation and Choice Online Act actually antagonizes both of these laudable ends.

Be sure to check out @ITIFdc and @ACTonline's letter for a more fulsome explanation: https://t.co/KsUfcAk3U1

[Ronna McDaniel @RonnaMcDaniel]

I was proud to sign onto @ITIFdc’s letter opposing the anti-business, anti-innovation #AICOA to ensure that a strong collection of voices is united against a bill that would wreak havoc on the American economy. Read the letter here: https://t.co/wGCLKXdGWN

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

The US Embassy in London (@USAinUK) is pushing back on a proposed UK social media ban.

ITIF's @ashljnsn explains why empowering parents with customizable tools & age-appropriate safeguards is a better approach than one-size-fits-all restrictions. ⤵️

[Daniel Castro @castrotech]

Everyone wants to blame AI for why new college graduates are struggling to find jobs.

But look at the other headlines: college students can't read proficiently, write clearly, or do basic math.

AI may be changing the job market. But declining skills are the bigger problem.

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

2/ Video games rely on digital replicas for characters, voices, & immersion.

As @Alexitif writes, Congress should narrow its definition of “digital replica” to protect innovation while stopping harmful deepfakes.

Read more ⤵️
https://t.co/Rp8iifCiFO

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

The NO FAKES Act would rightly create a federal right of publicity to protect people from unauthorized AI-generated digital replicas.

But its broad definition of “digital replica” could unintentionally harm video game development & innovation...🧵

[Joseph V. Coniglio @JosephVConiglio]

As @ITIFdc, @actonline and a coalition of over 30 organizations and individuals explain in a letter to @ChuckGrassley and @SenatorDurbin, AICOA will not only harm innovation at home, but rubberstamp the spread of discriminatory policies like the DMA abroad.

It must be stopped.

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

3/ Europe’s real challenge is competing with China—not replacing American technology.

Brussels should strengthen transatlantic cooperation, not pursue digital protectionism that could undermine innovation and economic growth.

Read our latest ⤵️
https://t.co/Ccpqxd2u8O

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

The EU unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Package to reduce reliance on U.S. technology & boost “digital autonomy.”

But restricting access to leading global tech risks slowing digital adoption, weakening productivity growth, & deepening Europe’s tech lag...🧵

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

2/ The package would limit U.S. cloud providers, promote European chip demand, & expand domestic data centers.

Yet Europe lacks comparable alternatives at the scale its digital ambitions require, making these goals difficult to achieve.

[Joseph V. Coniglio @JosephVConiglio]

No, @ChuckGrassley. If AICOA was about fighting abuses of market power, it would require proof of such power before it applies, rather than just counting revenues and users. But it doesn't. And rather than just fight abuses, it will chill a broad range of procompetitive behavior.

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

Congress must reject the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA).

Read the letter here ⬇️
https://t.co/bMLq42BBHe

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

AICOA was reintroduced in Congress yesterday.

ITIF and @ACTonline sent a letter signed by 30+ organizations and individuals to @ChuckGrassley and @SenatorDurbin explaining that AICOA would not promote innovation or choice, but it would actively undermine both.

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

By presumptively banning leading digital platforms from a wide range of procompetitive practices, AICOA would harm consumers by mandating inferior products, chill innovation by limiting investment returns, and deprive small businesses of infrastructure they use to compete.

[Daniel Castro @castrotech]

OpenAI reports that it has discovered PRC-linked accounts amplifying anti-data center messages.

This revelation is significant because there is a genuine risk that the data center backlash hurts U.S. efforts to remain the global leader in AI.

No infrastructure, no deployment.

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

A Section 301 threat could help preserve the broader transatlantic relationship by forcing a serious negotiation before the dispute escalates.

The goal is not to rupture U.S.-EU ties, but to show anti-U.S. digital rules have consequences.

[Rodrigo Balbontin @R_Balbontin_]

1/4 EU’s Digital Markets Act is not really about competition. It is a discriminatory, extractive police dressed up as regulation—and its effect is to hobble America’s leading technology firms while European firms face no comparable treatment in the US

[Joseph V. Coniglio @JosephVConiglio]

A highly flawed bill that if enacted will not only have negative effects on innovation at home, but also undercut our ability to push back against regulations like the DMA that target American firms abroad. Countries will say that vis-a-vis AICOA we endorse those policies.

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

@MarshaBlackburn @ashljnsn 2/ Federal preemption of state AI laws would reduce regulatory fragmentation & support US AI competitiveness.

But Congress should address AI preemption separately from child safety & digital replica bills.

Read our full statement:
https://t.co/8wDunGZaga

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

Senator @MarshaBlackburn is reportedly negotiating with the White House to preempt state AI laws in exchange for advancing bills like KOSA, ASSA, & the NO FAKES Act.

ITIF's @ashljnsn warns that linking these issues could stall progress on all of them...🧵