Sarmad Ali on States should retain the right to set s…

Sarmad Ali

Founder of myWakeel and author on AI governance and technology regulation.

The first is a federal governance framework targeting frontier AI developers above $500 million in annual revenue. These developers would be required to publish safety frameworks, report critical incidents, and submit to semi-annual third-party audits. [...] The right answer is a federal floor that sets minimum national standards while preserving state authority to go further, not a federal ceiling that suspends state innovation while federal standards are still being written.

Unverified (Oct 7, 2026)

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Sarmad Ali, “America’s Preemption Gamble,” The Regulatory Review (Penn Program on Regulation), October 7, 2026. The bylined analysis argues that federal frontier-AI safety requirements should form a national floor while states retain authority to go further.