Rather they're big tech's best buddy...

But this resolution specifically safeguards AI "automated decision systems", which they define as:

> any computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues a simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, to materially influence or replace human decision making.

Recommendation algorithms [weaponize influence against people that] decide elections, change laws, and move markets. The US effectively mandated a minimum drinking age by tying it to interstate funding. Some 40 years later, you can (AFAIK) openly operate a recommendation algorithm aimed at getting masses of people to drink and drive, and still be eligible for federal grants and funding.

AI should be open and free of barriers. Our government should not give money to corporations that manipulate our emotions for control and profit. Sure, we can rabble to our tribe about "Republicans" and "the GOP", but federal funding and directing of the manipulation of Americans was enabled by the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 under a split congress and democratic president.

Increasing corporate control over the public is currently a bipartisan issue, and words can't undo it.