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Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr’s newest fight with Disney is starting to raise alarms among some members of the GOP and on K Street—though many Republicans appear ready to give him a pass.

On April 24, the Justice Department intervened in xAI’s challenge to Colorado’s “Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence” law. In its complaint, the DOJ argues the law’s provisions curbing algorithmic bias violates people’s 14th Amendment right to be treated equally under the law.

Long a hobbyhorse for futurists and sci-fi authors, the prospect of a catastrophe precipitated by AI has lawmakers asking who would pay for the damage. Wired recently reported that OpenAI is backing an Illinois state bill that would protect frontier AI companies from liability for causing serious widespread injury that affects more than 100 people or does more than $1 billion in property damage, such as in the case of a chemical, biological or nuclear catastrophe.

The 2017 “alternative facts” statement made by the White House was a turning point. We are now in a place where the person who gets their version of the truth out fastest and biggest wins. The fact that President Trump has a social network he calls “Truth Social” is not an accident. He wants to own the word “truth.” We’re past the point where there’s a singular truth or a singular fact.