Stephen Casper warns a proposed AI regulatory framework could let a government commission appoint 50% of tech board seats

But I think this could easily be fixed in many ways. For example, the Act could be modified to require that the Commission has, among its members, a person nominated by and designated to represent each of the two parties in Congress, and that, for any company inside the Fund...

...at least half of its appointees (rounded down) must have been placed there with a positive vote from each of the two designated party representatives.

In other words, the party that controls 4 Commission seats would be able to control 50% of the board positions on essentially all big American tech companies.

This is pretty terrifying.

The point in concentration of power is kind of what the very last tweets in the thread were about. I think that the bill as written risks concentrating immense gov power based on what party controls the commission. But if the bill were fixed to guarantee party parity in board appointment, now we’re talking.

@StephenLCasper Nah dividing power across two party elites doesn’t do much for liberalism I think.

@sethlazar Crux? I think it’s way better than extractive technocrats having all the control over boards.

The point in concentration of power is kind of what the very last tweets in the thread were about. I think that the bill as written risks concentrating immense gov power based on what party controls the commission. But if the bill were fixed to guarantee party parity in board appointment, now we’re talking.