Artificial Intelligence Wisdom for Innovative Small Enterprises (AI-WISE) Act

What is this bill?

• HR 5784, sponsored by Hillary Scholten (D-MI-3)

  • co-sponsored by:

    • Gabe Amo (D-RI-1)

    • Gil Cisneros (D-CA-31)

    • Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-2)

    • Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)

This bill would amend the Small Business Act by adding a new section that would “establish and maintain educational resources and modules for small business concerns with information on artificial intelligence tools.”

What makes this bill fascist?

In a first for this session, HR 5784 is the first fascist bill sponsored and introduced by a Democrat.

Note: This is copied from the article on HR 5764 [link when live] due to the reason for this bill being fascist is the same.

A very simple refrain I’ve seen repeated and I thoroughly agree with is that AI is the aesthetic of fascism. Whether it be the slop produced for Twitter by the various government departments all the way to lazy troll shitposts, AI has become the predominant artistic style of the United States’ fascist movement. That said, this goes beyond just plagiarized art. It is a push for a technology designed to replace the people that its creators view as obsolete: office workers, artists, writers. The people who are standing between CEOs and higher profits. Which breeds, as Umberto Eco put it in Ur-Fascism, a contempt for the ‘weak,' aka subordinates.

I also have to mention the harm AI does to workers, the environment, and people. Simply put, any bill that requires AI to be depicted as a net positive, despite the dangers & its intertwined relationship with fascism, is automatically fascist.

Which Dems voted for it?

• House (???)

  • passed by a voice vote

    • yeas and nays weren’t demanded, so there is no information on who voted yea and who voted nay

Did this bill pass?

• passed the House by a voice vote on 1/20/26