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Schumer should butt out of AI reg talks because of his 'familial ties' to big tech, say GOP groups

FOX News

Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner has the latest on the president's focus amid calls for an impeachment inquiry on'Special Report.' EXCLUSIVE: Republican groups are calling on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to recuse himself from efforts to regulate artificial intelligence because of his daughters' work with Big Tech firms Meta and Amazon. Schumer has been leading a bipartisan group of senators that are examining guardrails for AI. But Republican groups Bull Moose Project and New York Young Republican Club, among other organizations, argued in a letter to Schumer that his family ties to these companies should disqualify him from the push to regulate AI. "As the Senate considers regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence (AI), it is crucial that lawmakers' personal conflicts of interest do not impact policy decisions," the representatives of the groups wrote. The groups said during last year's push to regulate Big Tech, some said the fact that his daughter Alison Schumer worked at Meta as a privacy and politics product marketing manager and his daughter Jessica Schumer was a registered Amazon lobbyist created a conflict of interest.