“in December 2024, Jack Clark tried to push Congressman Jay Obernolte (CA-23) for federal preemption of state AI laws” is a very strong claim, and one that I think is impossible for me to evaluate without context we don’t have.
I would encourage you to give context on what kinds of advocacy he was purportedly engaged in and what your sources allege to have believed the Congressman’s preferences on preemption were already at that time. I would not, for example, be especially surprised if the Congressman was already thinking hard about pushing for preemption at that time and Jack Clark was engaging him in a conversation where he had been made aware of (hypothetically) Congressman Obernolte’s plans. For example, I would be very dubious if you were claiming that Jack Clark came up with the idea and pitched it to Congress.
(I personally have no strong public opinion on preemption being good or bad in the abstract; the specific terms of what you’re preempting at the state level and what you’re doing at the federal level are most of the ballgame here.)
“in December 2024, Jack Clark tried to push Congressman Jay Obernolte (CA-23) for federal preemption of state AI laws” is a very strong claim, and one that I think is impossible for me to evaluate without context we don’t have.
I would encourage you to give context on what kinds of advocacy he was purportedly engaged in and what your sources allege to have believed the Congressman’s preferences on preemption were already at that time. I would not, for example, be especially surprised if the Congressman was already thinking hard about pushing for preemption at that time and Jack Clark was engaging him in a conversation where he had been made aware of (hypothetically) Congressman Obernolte’s plans. For example, I would be very dubious if you were claiming that Jack Clark came up with the idea and pitched it to Congress.
(I personally have no strong public opinion on preemption being good or bad in the abstract; the specific terms of what you’re preempting at the state level and what you’re doing at the federal level are most of the ballgame here.)