Congress should not establish broad, essentially unchangeable immunity for an industry that it does not yet understand and whose future development can scarcely be charted, Brad Carson testified this week before a U.S. Senate committee.

On March 18, Brad R. Carson, President of Americans for Responsible Innovation, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 is widely critiqued for shielding social media companies from lability for harms to children and the American public. In his remarks, Carson called upon Congress to sunset Section 230 and warned that Congress is about to fall into a similar trap by seeking to preemptively deregulate the AI industry.

Thirty years ago, Congress passed Section 230 to address a narrow but critical problem: whether platforms could moderate content without assuming publisher liability. Today, that law is widely—and rightly—criticized for enabling unchecked harms. As we confront artificial intelligence, we must ask, “Will we repeat the mistakes of Section 230, or will we learn from them?”