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Comment by Deborah Ross

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U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district
The Constitution reserves a lot of power to the states in particular areas [like] public safety, which can pertain to issues that AI touches like deepfakes, election interference, and regulating how technology shows up in mental health care.
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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government

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AI Unverifiable Vote alignment correct: the quote argues the Constitution reserves power to the states over AI-adjacent areas (public safety, deepfakes, election interference, mental-health tech), which supports the statement "States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government" — recorded vote is 'for'. Author attribution and source are well-corroborated: web search confirms the Axios article exists with the matching headline "The US Constitution should protect state-level AI regulation, Rep. Ross says" (axios.com, 2026-03-26), attributed to Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC), and matching the quote's thrust. Year (2026) present and recent. However, axios.com returns HTTP 403 and blocks all fetch attempts, so I could not confirm the exact verbatim sentence (including the specific "deepfakes, election interference... mental health care" wording) on the page itself. Per protocol for sources that block fetching, marking ai_unverifiable despite strong external corroboration. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
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