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Comment by Cody Venzke

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Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU (Surveillance, Privacy, and Technology)
First, the tug of war between states and the federal government will continue. While states made significant strides in 2025 to address AI, federal policymakers were instead focused on preempting those efforts. Despite failing to do so twice, proponents of preemption will undoubtedly extend into 2026. Instead of attacking state regulation, federal policymakers should be learning from states’ best proposals.
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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 clearly implies support for the statement: it criticizes federal efforts to preempt state AI regulations and says federal policymakers should stop attacking state regulation. Opposing preemption implies states should retain authority to impose their own, potentially stricter, AI safety standards. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote criticizes federal efforts to "preempt" state AI rules and says that "instead of attacking state regulation, federal policymakers should be learning from states’ best proposals," which clearly favors allowing states to keep regulating. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified The Tech Policy Press page dated 2026-01-06 contains this paragraph verbatim under the heading “Cody Venzke—Senior Policy Counsel on Surveillance, Privacy, and Technology, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)” (lines 98-101). The stored quote text, speaker attribution, date, and source URL all match the source. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed The TechPolicy.Press article "Expert Predictions on What’s at Stake in AI Policy in 2026" dated January 6, 2026 attributes a nearly identical passage to Cody Venzke, but the source text at his section begins, "First, the tug of war between states and the federal government will continue..." rather than the submitted opening "The tug of war...". So it is correctly attributed, but not fully verbatim as written. ([techpolicy.press](https://www.techpolicy.press/expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote by Cody Venzke (Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU), 2026. The source_url (TechPolicy.Press "Expert Predictions on What's at Stake in AI Policy in 2026") returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed that this specific article contains the prediction text — "instead of attacking state regulation, federal policymakers should be learning from states' best proposals," plus the framing that proponents of preemption failed twice and will extend efforts into 2026. The "failing twice" detail precisely matches Venzke's separately documented ACLU statement ("a dangerous policy that the Republican-led Congress has rejected not once, but twice: displacing states from their critical role"), corroborating both the attribution and content. Author attribution correct. Year 2026 current (predictions piece for 2026). Vote "for" on statement 438 ("States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government") aligns correctly — Venzke defends state authority against federal preemption. Relevant and reflects the statement's meaning. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1mo ago
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