arguing in front of the fifth circuit court of appeals in new orleans, laying out a case of why the fda approved abortion bill should remain on the market. what we know about the panel of judges we have to convince, we re not just watching louisiana, the republican super majority in north carolina voted to override the democratic governor s detail, making abortion illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy. governor cooper argues in practice, the law might act like a total ban. we are on the ground in rally with what happened right before and after that vote. in nebraska, republicans are revising their failed six-week abortion pill ban to i m sorry, abortion bill ban to 12 weeks to remember the six-week ban was sunk by a single republican holdout. does his vote change to a yes for a 12-week ban? in south carolina, after three republican women refused to sign on to a total ban, the party is now weighing a new option, banning abortion after a fetal heart beat is detected. typically
a group of parents with the help of a major publishing house and the largest writer s group in america is suing a florida school district. they argue the schools are violating the first amendment and bringing us one step closer to a ray bradbury dystopia. joining me is nbc news correspondent antonia hylton. i left out of a lot of the details. bring us up to speed. i can break it down for you. this lawsuit was filed this morning by pan america, a free speech advocacy group. a great group. i have been involved with them. they pulled in penguin random house, a number of children s books and authors and two parents in the school district and they re alleging escambia county schools essentially have systematically removed books
well, i would say, katy, that at this point, the answer is no. i mean, i think fundamentally, congress has come a long way from where we were back when orrin hatch asked zuckerberg how they make money, and zuckerberg said we sell ads, we re not there more. the staffers are smarter, regulators are smarter. so there s lots of smart people working on the problem in washington. i would say the thing that is, you know, what experts and critics have been saying to me after altman s performance in this hearing is that it s pretty masterful that he talks a lot about regulation, but what he doesn t talk about is pulling back or slowing down in any way. and there was a narrative that, again, critics are saying the tech industry has been pushing, which is just that this thing is inevitable. it s going to sweep across society like weather, and we need to just kind of get ready for it to rain. you know, prepare ourselves in that way, and what academics, regulators, lawmakers are saying to me is t
concern regarding or even understanding about the political fallout of making himself that lightning rod on this issue, but once that spark hit, it just shoots out, and it hits everybody else. so now you have cincinnati candidates, congressional candidates, gubernatorial candidates and all other types of candidates, including state races, state house races that will be in play this cycle that those candidates now are going to have to deal with this issue when they thought they really wouldn t have to. they could talk and pivot about on to the economy, and the question will come, right, that donald trump said that, you know, everything that s happening in the state regarding roe is because of him. do you agree? and there it starts. so, yeah, there s a lot of eye rolling right now because he s making it harder for republicans to do that heisman, you know, create some distance between them and the issue. that s not going to be the case, and if democrats have anything to say, and certainly
controlled by computers. while i robot may be extreme, the man known as the god father of ai, dr. geoffrey hinton left his job at google and issued a stark warning. i think it s possible that people are a passing phase in human intelligence. in other words, computers may take over? yes, that s possible. reporter: an existential threat to all of us. you ll recognize geoffrey hinton, we had him on the show. joining us is nbc news technology correspondent, jake ward. you have a lot of really smart people who have created a lot of really intelligence design, including artificial intelligence, warning congress to act, but congress is full of people who don t necessarily understand the basics of the internet. are they asking for the specifics? are they laying out a ground framework for congress to say here s how you do this?