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Does the First Amendment Protect A.I.? The Supreme Court May Soon Have Its Say.

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This summer , the Supreme Court issued two decisions that will impact the future of A.I. regulation.

John Sutter : The court's conservative justices want to reduce government regulation of private industry.

He says they may open the door to other kinds of oversight in a pair of other cases, Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice , LLC v. Paxton .

A state law requiring A.I. developers to responsibly collect and take care of training data is unlikely to trigger First Amendment scrutiny.

A law requiring audits and certification of tools that engage in sophisticated persuasion may also not implicate the First Amendment on its face, depending on how it’s written.