Who?
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) — Chair, Foreign Relations Committee
Ask a Pol asked:
Do you think we’ll get any floor time on the AI and deepfake legislation?
Key Cardin:
“The Rules Committee, I think, is looking at this in conjunction to the elections. Trying to get something out ASAP,” Cardin told Ask a Pol.
“But this is gonna come down to foreign interference?”
“Well, we’ll find out,” Cardin replied. “We might have some interest in that.”
LISTEN: Laslo & Cardin
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ben Cardin
Ben Cardin: “The Rules Committee, I think, is looking at this in conjunction to the elections. Trying to get something out ASAP.”
Matt Laslo: “So it’s not really under your committee on Foreign Relations?”
BC: “No-no, no, it’s really Rules [Committee], ‘cause it’s election. But we have some…”
ML: “But this is gonna come down to foreign interference. Parts of it, but still.”
BC: “Well, we’ll find out.”
ML: “Yeah?”
BC: “We might have some interest in that.”
ML: “Do you think we’ll get any floor time? It just doesn’t feel like this is a thing.”
BC: “It’s a big — it’s a big deal, yeah. We’re trying to take care of the election issue first.”
ML: “Yeah? Preciate ya.”
Matt Laslo covers tech politics for WIRED, lectures on technology’s impact on government at Johns Hopkins and is the founder of Ask a Pol — a new people-powered press corps.
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Sen. Cardin on whether Foreign Relations Committee will play role in deepfake legislation: “We might have some interest in that”