Ted Cruz Warns of Europe’s AI Regulations Infiltrating the U.S.

The Department of Justice must investigate foreign organization’s influence on the United States’ artificial intelligence policies, Sen. Ted Cruz wrote in a November 21 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Regulatory infiltration: The European Union and individual European governments have a history of forcing regulations on other global players.

For years, European governments have pursued heavy-handed regulation of U.S.-developed Internet technologies. Their targeting of one of America’s chief exports is no longer limited to European jurisdictions; they have now moved to regulate within the United States too.
—Ted Cruz

An open door: Cruz also accused the current U.S. administration of inviting the enemy in. He noted:

The administration is coordinating with the [United Kingdom] and EU on AI initiatives despite having been given no such explicit direction from Congress. In April, the U.S. signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK to align their approaches to evaluating AI models, systems and agents, and in September, the administration entered into the first global treaty on AI with the EU and 10 other nonmember states. … Moreover, Europeans are crossing the pond to “reach out to key public and private stakeholders” about their efforts to control AI development. The EU has opened a digital technology field office in San Francisco to “further reinforce the EU’s work,” and the UK is opening a San Francisco office for its AI Safety Institute. …

The Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to tie this country’s AI policies to foreign countries’ agendas will have real consequences. They will set the U.S. behind China in the race to lead AI innovation. … Moreover, imposition of these foreign AI policies on American firms will pave the path for government regulation of speech and information sharing. The EU has already used newly minted technology regulations to go after X and Elon Musk for not censoring alleged “misinformation.” If the radical left succeeds in carrying over the EU’s AI policies, they will carry over its censorship capabilities as well—in direct violation of the First Amendment.

Some recognize this coordinated effort to infiltrate the U.S, but few see who is ultimately behind the attack and to what end.

Learn more: Read Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s article “Germany Is Taking Control of the Internet.”