Carr: FCC Looking at Preemption Authority for Role in White House AI Plan
The FCC’s efforts on the White House’s AI Action plan will involve a “team” principally run out of the Office of General Counsel, said Chairman Brendan Carr in a news conference Thursday. The agency will look at its authority to…
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preempt state laws and proceed with “an open mind,” he added. The agency’s role will be “looking at ways that we can streamline or accelerate or potentially address barriers that may be in the way of the buildout of AI infrastructure.” Commissioner Anna Gomez said during her news conference Thursday that the Communications Act doesn't give the FCC authority over AI, and that the administration's actions against subsidizing the buildout of high-capacity fiber infrastructure will undermine the proliferation of AI. "What this administration is doing with the BEAD program is antithetical to the goals of this administration on AI," she said.