Goal is investing millions of dollars to support the anti-regulation candidates of AI

Goal (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) will launch a political organization in California to finance local candidates favorable to the least strict regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the state that Silicon Valley houses.

The social networks giant confirmed on Tuesday at the AFP preparing for the creation of a “super capitalization” (Political Action Committee), a name given in the United States to entities capable of providing hundreds of millions of dollars to political campaigns, without a roof.

The information was revealed on Tuesday by Politico, who talks about a contribution goal that encrypts in “tens of millions of dollars.” “The Economic Sector of California, which thanks a large number of the world’s world companies, plays a disproportionate role in American growth, employment creation and global competitiveness,” said a finish spokesman interviewed by AFP.

“Except that the regulations planned in Sacramento”, the capital of California, “could suffocate innovation, block the progress of AI and endanger the technological leadership of California,” he justified.

A threat to the development of AI

According to Meta, the laws adopted by the states threaten to slow down the development of AI amid the innovation of US companies with their Chinese rivals.

The American technology industry, which spends hundreds of billions of dollars, especially in artificial intelligence infrastructure, weighs all its weight to avoid certain regulations in the sector.

In July, he has failed to obtain from the American Congress a federal prohibition that would have prevented the United States states for ten years adopting or implementing AI laws.

Around fifty new laws linked to AI in California, Pointe Meta, who estimates that “many of them could slow down technological advances are being examined.”

One of these laws, which will enter into force on January 1, requires that generative IA developers with a large user base publish a summary of training data, provide free content detection tools generated by AI and guarantee a clear labeling of these contents.