Sen. Blumenthal hopes to pass AI legislation by year's end

The degree of smothering-in-the-cradle from those bullet points... Compliance with that alone would kill any startup.

The cat is already out of the bag IMO; Llama2, Falcon, etc are easily trained wherever you can buy GPUs, and the fundamentals for building LLMs are reasonably well known: this isn't like building nuclear weapons, where export controls will stop or slow knowledge transfer. The knowledge transfer already happened — in fact, many of the advancements in AI that made general-purpose LLMs possible were made by citizens of foreign countries on work visas. If the US passes that legislation, new AI companies will shift their training runs to friendlier regulatory regimes, to other countries' benefit and our loss. Much faster than trying to fight a First Amendment court battle...