A bill aimed at preparing Georgia for the continuing proliferation of artificial intelligence did not get a committee vote Wednesday after Alpharetta Republican Sen. Brandon Beach, chair of the Senate Economic Development and Tourism Committee, said a Georgia GOP congressman put the kibosh on it.
“I can tell you that I got a call from Congressman Rich McCormick asking us not to do anything on AI, saying that they were going to do it at the federal level,” Beach said. “It’s a federal issue in his mind, and he thinks that the United States is competing with China and other countries, and if each state does something different, it’s going to be this state’s doing this, that state’s doing that, and he thinks it needs to come from the federal level.”
“I’m not saying we’re not going to pass it because of what Congressman McCormick said,” he added, “but I do want to talk to you offline, because I do have some concerns that if each state does something different, do we have any continuity, if you will, from the overall United States?”
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