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AI ACTION PLAN SUBMISSIONS:
NAIA, HOLLYWOOD, OPEN AI AND MORE
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- 8,755 Comments on the US AI Action Plan
- Hollywood, Artists and Musicians Revolt on OpenAI Position
- Kratsios Nears Senate Approval as OSTP Director
- Appeals Court Says No Copyright for AI Generated Art
- US Dept of Commerce Bans DeepSeek
- NAIA Co-Chair Meets former WH Tech Advisor Now Congressman
- NAIA Proposes Comprehensive Data Legislation - ADMAIA
- Member Focus: Scalafai - AI Objects and Key Results System
- NAIA & GlueUp team up for Membership Management
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8,755 Comments on the US AI Action Plan
Last Saturday at 11:59 PM, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) closed public input on the U.S. government's AI Action Plan. The OSTP issued RFI (HERE) had over eight thousand comments since its release in February. The above quote is from the opening paragraph of OpenAI's submission (HERE) and one of their proposals about allowing "American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material" immediately drew a strong negative reaction from Hollywood (HERE).
Below is a link to NAIA's Submission to OSTP and several others you may find interesting to review:
NAIA's Submission and Recommendations
(See below discussion of ADMAIA)
OpenAI Submission
Google's Comments
Anthropic's Recommendations
Palantir's RFI Response
Open Source Initiative Response
National Assn. of Manufacturers Comments
The Just Security blog (based at New York University School of Law) had a good synopsis of the filings:
"While diverse in approach, the submissions converge around several core themes: infrastructure and energy development, federal preemption of state AI laws, export controls to maintain U.S. competitiveness against rivals like China, promoting domestic AI adoption, safeguarding national security, and defining clear copyright and licensing frameworks for AI data. What follows is a thematic roundup of these proposals, culminating in a reference table at the end." (HERE)
NAIA will be tracking as OSTP makes announcements / policies in response to the US AI Action Plan RFI.
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Kratsios Clears Senate Commerce, Science and Tech Committee on path to head Office of Science & Tech Policy
With a big pile of AI Action Plan submissions sitting on his desk, Michael Kratsios, President Trump's first administration CTO, will soon be confirmed by the US Senate to be appointed President Trump's Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The Senate CST Committee approved Kratsios nomination by a bipartisan vote of 24-4. He will also serve as Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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Appeals Court Rules AI Solely Generated Art Cannot be Copyrighted
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that an autonomously generated piece of art could not be copyrighted. When the copyright was filed in 2018, the owner, Stephen Thaler listed the "Creativity Machine" as the sole author of "A Recent Entrance to Paradise" in 2012.
The three-judge panel determined “The [copyright] rule requires only that the author of that work be a human being — the person who created, operated, or use artificial intelligence — and not the machine itself,” The panel further noted that the Copyright Office “has allowed the registration of works made by human authors who use artificial intelligence.”
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Department of Commerce Bans DeepSeek. While Legislation Moves to House and Senate Committees
The US Department of Commerce informed staffers this past week "do not download, view, access any applications, desktop apps or websites related to DeepSeek" and OpenAI calls for the ban of "state subsidized" and "state controlled" DeepSeek.
The pressure to ban DeepSeek and now Manus continues while these bills have been submitted and referred to Committees waiting on action:
S.765 — A bill to prohibit the use of DeepSeek by the executive agencies, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rosen, Jacky [Sen.-D-NV] (Introduced 02/27/2025) Cosponsors: (2)
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
H.R.1121 — No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act
Sponsor: Gottheimer, Josh [Rep.-D-NJ-5] (Introduced 02/07/2025) Cosponsors: (24)
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
The following governmental bodies have banned DeepSeek from being downloaded by employees so far (recently added):
US Dept. of Commerce, NASA, the Navy, the Pentagon, the US Congress, States of Tennessee, Montana, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, Nevada, New York, Virginia and Texas, the governments of Denmark, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy and Australia. Kansas has pending legislation to ban DeepSeek.
Tennessee became the first state to also ban Manus along with DeepSeek.
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NAIA Co-Chair, Caleb Max, Meets with Congressman Suhas Subramanyam (Former Obama Tech Advisor)
Even when Congress is on a break and out of session this week, NAIA's Co-Chair and Congressional lead had the opportunity to grab coffee with freshman Representative Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10). The Congressman has a legal background, was appointed back in 2015 as a White House technology policy advisor for President Obama and owned an advisory business startup Virginia technology companies. He specifically worked in the White House on emerging tech such as artificial intelligence. Caleb brought the Congressman up-to-date on NAIA's activities and Representative Subramanyam relayed that he looks forward to working with NAIA on AI legislation in the House.
The Congressman serves on the Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology and the House Oversight Committee. On Oversight, he sits on the Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over federal information technology (IT), data standards and quality, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and acquisition, emerging technologies, privacy, cloud computing, data centers and intellectual property.
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NAIA Proposes "American Data Management & Artificial Intelligence Act (ADMAIA)"
In NAIA's submission for the US AI Action Plan (HERE), one of our concerns is as the Trump Administration releases and implements executive orders related to AI that if those policies are not codified into law, we can see them changed again under a new Administration like the recent reversal of the Biden AI executive orders. Congress must step forward and provide federal legislation which allows the AI industry to adopt and strategically plan for the long term related to data management. This is especially true as we see various states implement conflicting laws impacting AI development.
ADMAIA would be one comprehensive bill covering:
"We need a comprehensive solution so ADMAIA would (i) memorialize the data rights of consumers that have reached consensus among EU and state laws, (ii) standardize the consent rules for sensitive data, targeted advertising & profiling, (iii) incorporate privacy by design that enables adoption of a data privacy nutrition label, (iv) preempt all state laws in all related data management and AI areas, including consumer protection, wiretapping and state privacy laws, (v) incorporate responsible AI development principles in a rational manner with self-certification for standards that are not yet established, (vi) standardize all data protection and AI risk assessments, (vii) shield US technology firms from regulatory overreach, and (viii) provide a sound liability regime that protects victims of AI discrimination while protecting innovation with appropriate enforcement mechanisms but with no private cause of action."
NAIA will be working with House and Senate Members to introduce and move ADMAIA on Capitol Hill.
| Click below for details on NAIA's Response to HR 1027 The QUIET Act and review our previous newsletters (links below) for earlier legislation filed in the 119th Congress. | NAIA Members: Do you have questions or comments on any of the legislation being submitted in Congress? Contact us at Membership@theNAIA.org | | |
NEW MEMBER FOCUS: Scalafai - Winner of the 2025 Data Science Salon ATX Startup Showcase
Based in Austin, Texas, Scalafai is focused on improving employee engagement through AI-powered performance optimization. "While many companies are focused on replacing human workers with AI, our mission is fundamentally different," says Jeremy Antoniuk, Founder and CEO of Scalafai. "Safia works alongside people, helping them achieve their highest potential with Gen AI at their side."
Scalafai’s OKR management platform, Safia, is like having a smart team assistant, a personal assistant, and an experienced coach for every member of a team. The platform seamlessly connects with existing tools – email, calendar, CRM, and 300+ other systems – to automatically track progress against OKRs, provide actionable insights, and deliver results.
Scalafai recently became a Silver Level Startup Member of NAIA.
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NAIA Adds Glue-Up for Servicing Our Members
First off, please accept our apologies if our personal communication has been slow. NAIA's growth has been like a rocket (SpaceX Falcon Heavy?) as membership now has increased to almost 500+. We are pleased to relay we have teamed up with Glue Up, an award winning, all-in-one engagement platform for creating a digital community. This is a full suite of tools to improve communications, handle events, management membership, etc. We look forward to rolling out the program and continuing to build NAIA as your voice in Washington.
FYI - NAIA has released a one page briefing sheet for those companies interested in participating at the enterprise level HERE. Contact Membership@theNAIA.org should you have any questions and wish to join.
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