Video The Trump administration is pushing to loosen federal rules on AI, with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introducing legislation to give developers a two-year waiver from certain regulations, renewable for up to a decade.

The snappily titled Strengthening Artificial intelligence Normalization and Diffusion By Oversight and eXperimentation [PDF] (the SANDBOX Act) would provide AI companies with a way to "seek temporary waivers or modifications of specific federal rules. Cruz launched the legislation on Wednesday, just as he was questioning the White House director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Michael Kratsios, who is also Peter Thiel's former chief of staff. You can see the entire hearing below.

Under the language of the bill, any company could apply to the OSTP Dir

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