President Biden included a nod to a rising problem within the leisure and tech industries throughout his State of the Union tackle Thursday night, calling for a ban on AI voice impersonations.

“Right here at dwelling, I’ve signed over 400 bipartisan payments. There’s extra to cross my unity agenda,” President Biden mentioned, starting to listing off a collection of various proposals that he hopes to deal with if elected to a second time period. “Strengthen penalties on fentanyl trafficking. Go bipartisan privateness laws to guard our youngsters on-line. Harness the promise of AI to guard us from peril. Ban AI voice impersonations and extra.”

The President didn’t elaborate on the forms of guardrails or penalties that he would plan to institute across the rising know-how, or if it will lengthen to the leisure trade. AI was a peak concern for SAG-AFTRA throughout the actors union’s negotiations with and strike towards the main studios final yr. The talks ultimately completed with an settlement that established consent and compensation necessities for productions to make the most of AI to copy actors’ likenesses and voices. Nonetheless, the deal didn’t block the studios from coaching AI programs to create “artificial” performers that bear no resemblance to any actual individuals.

Biden’s State of the Union tackle additionally noticed a collection of small hiccups from heckling Congress members, together with George’s Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene donned a “Make America Nice Once more” hat to the proceedings; later, the published reduce to disclose that Greene was yelling throughout Biden’s speech.