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We support Illinois SB 315, which builds on California’s and New York’s landmark AI safety and transparency laws by establishing strong protections to safeguard kids, users, and communities. While we do support SB 315’s third-party audit provisions in principle, we have potential concerns about the implications of how the bill addresses them. We believe third-party audits of frontier models will be important, if implemented properly and professionally, but if not, they carry the risk of becoming politicized or ineffective due to being run through bureaucracies that don’t have sufficient AI expertise. We worry that if many states include such provisions, then AI models will be subject to many disparate and overlapping audits, similar to how money transmitter licensing requires audits from 53 jurisdictions. Furthermore, we think it’s important that states remain harmonized rather than having an arms race of escalating provisions. We won’t weigh in on every piece of AI legislation, but wanted to do so here in order to better communicate the nuances of our AI position. We continue to believe a comprehensive federal framework for frontier AI oversight will be critical so there is one set of rules that provides safety, oversight, and protection for innovation, but that harmonized state legislation (as we’re seeing in California, New York, and now Illinois) is helping shape an emerging national model for AI governance. We appreciate the strong partnership and collaboration among all stakeholders on these issues during the final weeks of session.

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Radiology jobs, which some predicted would disappear because of AI, have actually exploded. @ComfortablySmug: People are excited about harnessing AI to empower individuals, create more jobs, get more done, and reindustrialize America.

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In 2016, a famous AI researcher said AI would take radiologists' jobs in five years. He was wrong. Here's what actually happened:

New York just announced a moratorium on data centers. China didn't. @JenningsShow on why you can't win the AI race while refusing to build the infrastructure that powers it.

If you could go back to 1998 knowing what the internet became, would you ban it? No. You'd write the rules early — kids' safety, privacy, one national framework. That's @MaxRose4NY's challenge to Congress on AI: washingtonreporter.news/op-ed-rep-max-…

Live from Tampa, FL, Build American AI is celebrating #AIAppreciationDay with 70+ small business owners, elected officials, and industry leaders. Up next: BAAI Executive Director @NathanLeamer on how businesses are integrating AI every day with a future of AI panel moderated by @PeterSchorschFL of Florida Politics.

The buildout of AI infrastructure is providing good-paying, dignified jobs to communities across the country and helping American workers like those in the @IBEW. Don't believe us? Here's a job opening for $53.80/hour to help build: ibew481.org/AvailableJobs/

As @rob_zedd, CEO and co-founder of @AskariDefense, says it best: "AI is the next-generation force multiplier for small businesses".

AI is bringing American energy dominance back. Demand from AI data centers is restarting American nuclear power — and the proof is in Iowa. Duane Arnold, the state's only nuclear plant, closed in 2020. Now @Google is funding its restart to power AI infrastructure: roughly 400 permanent jobs back in Palo, more than 600 megawatts of clean, reliable power back on the grid by early 2029 — and Google has already signed on to explore building new nuclear plants nationwide.

AI is changing how America recovers from disasters. After Hurricane Ida in 2021, @NASA scientists used AI with satellite images to detect blue tarps on damaged rooftops — measuring the damage community by community, so help goes where it's needed most. science.nasa.gov/open-science/a…

There is a great deal of misinformation right now about data centers and water use. The facts are more encouraging: NVIDIA's newest AI systems can be cooled with a water-glycol mix that meaningfully reduces the need for water-intensive equipment. Concerns about local resources deserve to be taken seriously, and they are being answered the right way with better engineering, not with bans. We want American companies — the ones that actually care about American towns — to win the AI race with China. axios.com/2026/06/22/nvi…

For 250 years, American innovation has reflected the values of the society that created it, and it has made life better far beyond our borders. Artificial intelligence is the next chapter in that story, and the most consequential one in generations. America can and must win the AI race with China. To protect American jobs. To protect American privacy. To protect American kids. To protect American national security. Here’s to the next 250 years.

Appreciate the feedback! These are parody meme accounts run by an outside vendor, and they are easily linked to Build American AI. They are not a core part of our strategy. Here’s what we believe in: x.com/LeadingFutureA…

@levie The question was never "Will AI change work?" it's "are we building the on-ramps so the change creates access instead of gatekeeping it?" Box is showing what proactive looks like.

Box and @levie providing AI Doomers with yet another narrative violation. AI is creating potential for workers and bringing more opportunity, not less.

The tweet was about job trends today, rather than about where things may go in the future! We do believe that AI progress continues to be rapid and the future will look quite different from the present in hard-to-predict ways. However, many people are forming their opinions of the future based on their perception of current trends, which is why it’s worth looking at all available data to ensure a well-grounded present perspective. Our goal is to build a broad, cross-partisan coalition that supports a thoughtful, fact-based conversation. We believe AI brings great opportunity and will also be disruptive, like any major technology shift. With a technology this powerful and impactful also comes tremendous benefit (which often gets underemphasized in the narrative), and we’re encouraged to see this in much of the independent economic data being released. We recognize the economic transition ahead. That is exactly why we need a robust access and economic agenda that harnesses AI to create jobs for American workers, helps small businesses compete, expands productivity across the economy, and ensures workers in every community have the tools and training to adapt and succeed. That should include a national commitment to AI literacy; partnerships with schools, community colleges, and workforce programs; practical AI training and certification for workers across industries; and a clear national framework along with thoughtful and consistent state legislation that enables innovation to advance responsibly while protecting the public.

OpenAI/A16z exec backed Super PAC network pushing back on "the concept of AI-related job loss." Another instance of conflating a lack of current AI related job loss with whether there ever will be, and "AI accelerationists" implicitly being bearish on AI capabilities.

Add this evidence from @apolloglobal's Torsten Slok to the growing pile pushing back on the concept of of AI-related job losses. apollo.com/wealth/the-dai…

So many years of "the AI bubble is about to burst," and the only thing that's burst is the track record of the people predicting doom. The cranes will keep going up, the jobs will keep being created, and rural America will keep getting more opportunity thanks to AI growth.