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.

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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.

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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government

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AI Verified The quote explicitly favors a federal floor while preserving state authority to go further, directly covering stricter state AI-safety standards. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified The quote expressly supports a federal floor that preserves states’ authority to adopt stricter standards, matching ‘for’. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified The Regulatory Review’s Oct. 7, 2026 bylined article by Sarmad Ali contains this wording; the stored date, author, and wording match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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