• by Ray Schultz , Yesterday

The News/Media Alliance, agreeing with the Trump administration’s stated position, is calling for new rules to govern artificial intelligence (AI) development. 

In considering regulatory reforms, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) “has the opportunity to enhance the adoption and innovation in emerging AI uses by reducing obstacles to cooperation between AI developers and the creative industries, two sectors that exemplify American leadership and success,” the Alliance says in a letter responding to OSTP’s request for comment from stakeholders. 

The letter notes that the Alliance “agrees with President Trump’s recent statement that in order to win the AI race, “we want to have rules, but they have to be smart. They have to be brilliant. They have to be more brilliant than even the technology itself.” 

Robust intellectual property supercharges AI innovation and development. 

AI development and adoption can accelerate by incentivizing marketplace licensing and collaboration. 

Transparency requirements support AI development, adoption, and competition in the marketplace. 

AI development is hindered by uncertainty regarding copyright exceptions. 

Insufficient competition law enforcement can hurt publishers and Little Tech, harming innovation and consumer choice in the AI marketplace. 

“U.S. copyright law is capable and sufficient to address AI-related legal and practical challenges as well as technological developments, balancing the rightsholders’ exclusive rights to control use of their creative works with appropriate exceptions and limitations,” the Alliance letter states.

It continues: "Our judicial system is designed to resolve novel issues concerning unauthorized uses of protected content in a flexible and nuanced way, with courts across the country currently still weighing questions concerning AI and copyright – setting the ‘smart rules’ that will be needed for the next century."