Most tech firms like to operate under the adage of “ask forgiveness, not permission,” but they don’t even have to do that when they have lenient overseers like Ted Cruz trying to preemptively tell them to go ahead and get reckless. According to a report from Bloomberg , the Texas Senator plans to introduce legislation that will waive federal regulations for artificial intelligence companies and allow them to test new products without the standard scrutiny or oversight.

The proposed bill, which is still being drafted and has not yet been introduced, would reportedly allow AI firms to apply for a two-year waiver that would protect them from having to comply with any “enforcement, licensing, or authorization” requirements from the federal government. Instead, they’d operate in what Bloombe

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