Which brings us to what Clyburn\u2019s answer really exposed. He was not asked whether he could code. He was asked whether he had opened a product used by hundreds of millions of people, one that his own institution is deciding how to govern.<\/p>\n
The House has before it a 269-page bipartisan discussion draft that would impose audit and incident-reporting duties on frontier developers while freezing, for three years, every state\u2019s authority to legislate on how those systems are built. States have enacted more than 100 AI laws this year.<\/p>\n
Members are being asked to suspend 50 legislatures\u2019 police powers over a technology a meaningful number of them have never once used. That is not a generational failing. It is an epistemic one, and bipartisan.<\/p>\n
So, the reform worth arguing about is not an age limit. It is a competence norm. Not a litmus test, a purity test administered by gatekeepers. More like a disclosure expectation, enforced the way we enforce tax-return releases and medical disclosures: not by statute but by reporters who ask and voters who notice.<\/p>\n
Four questions, asked of everyone seeking federal office, in public, on the record. Have you personally used these systems, and what did you learn? Who advises you on technology, and are they paid by anyone with business before your committees? Do you support federal preemption of state AI law, and can you name what it would displace? What is one thing about this technology you have changed your mind about?<\/p>\n
Nobody fails such a test for answering \u201cno.\u201d Clyburn\u2019s \u201cno\u201d was not disqualifying. What followed it was. \u201cOr whatever it is\u201d is the shrug of an institution that has decided fluency in the subjects it regulates is optional, a posture available to a 40-year-old as readily as to an 86-year-old, and one that voters can see clearly if anyone bothers to ask.<\/p>\n
There is a reason the age argument has spread so quickly: It is easy, visible, and it excuses everyone under 70. However, retiring the oldest members of Congress would not have produced a single better question at the last AI hearing. Demanding that candidates demonstrate they have engaged with what they propose to govern might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Which brings us to what Clyburn\u2019s answer really exposed. He was not asked whether he could code. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[580,2524,157],"class_list":["post-139287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-chatgpt","tag-commentary","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}