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

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  Liz Shuler

  President of the AFL-CIO, America's largest federation of labor unions

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  While we would applaud any serious effort to regulate potentially dangerous AI technologies, any attempt to tie the hands of states in their efforts to keep working people safe is not acceptable. We oppose preemption of state authority to regulate th...

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  Brian Schatz

  U.S. Senator (D–Hawaii)

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  Embracing the amazing possibilities of AI can’t come at the cost of leaving Americans vulnerable to its profound risks, which is exactly what President Trump’s Executive Order tries to do [...] Discouraging states from enacting common-sense regulatio...

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  Cody Venzke

  Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU (Surveillance, Privacy, and Technology)

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  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, propone...

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  Steve Fetter

  Professor of public policy at the University of Maryland; member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board; former White House OSTP official

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  As uses of AI expand and concerns grow about potential risks, Trump revoked Biden's AI safety initiative and banned states from crafting their own AI regulation, reflecting a 'damn the torpedoes' approach to AI development.

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  Brendan Steinhauser

  CEO of The Alliance for Secure AI; longtime Republican political strategist and former Tea Party organizer

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  votes For and says:

  A national AI standard should protect at least as much as it preempts, and states across the country have already enacted laws that do far more for Americans on issues like child safety and consumer protections than this proposal.

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  Ed Markey

  U.S. senator from Massachusetts

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  votes For and says:

  President Trump is continuing to repay Big Tech's campaign donations by proposing to block states from protecting their communities from AI-related harms. [...] [We need the States' Right to Regulate AI Act to] put power back into the hands of people...

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  Doris Matsui

  U.S. Representative for California's 7th Congressional District

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  votes For and says:

  Republicans keep trying to strip states of the ability to enact commonsense AI safeguards—at a time when there are no meaningful federal protections in place. President Trump's executive order is illegal coercion: it threatens states with costly laws...

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  Don Beyer

  U.S. Representative from Virginia's 8th district; co-sponsor of the GUARDRAILS Act on AI

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  In today's lawless, Wild West artificial intelligence environment, states have been leading the charge to implement safeguards addressing serious risks ranging from algorithmic bias to data privacy and consumer protection. But the Trump White House a...

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  Zoe Lofgren

  U.S. Representative from California's 18th district; Ranking Member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee

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  What we should not do is preempt the states from taking necessary actions to protect their citizens while here in Congress, we do nothing to pass legislation ourselves.

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  Brad Carson

  Americans for Responsible Innovation president

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  This bill takes the current floor on state AI legislation and turns it into a federal ceiling, preventing state lawmakers from addressing emerging AI harms in an era of fast-moving technology. Over the past two decades, state lawmakers have proven to...

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  Robert Weissman

  President, Public Citizen

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  Preemption would effectively mean no U.S. regulation of AI at all, with the narrow exception of rules to deal with nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, because there are no national rules in place. [...] To be clear, states aren't keeping up with the ri...

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  Scott Wiener

  California state senator

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  The idea that the federal government would say or the Congress would say, 'We're not going to do anything about it, but you're not allowed to do anything about it either,' that is absurd, and it's actually outrageous. It shows that this administratio...

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  Ron DeSantis

  Governor of Florida

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  votes For and says:

  Stripping states of jurisdiction to regulate AI is a subsidy to Big Tech and will prevent states from protecting against online censorship of political speech, predatory applications that target children, violations of intellectual property rights an...

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  Matt Lane

  Senior Policy Counsel, Fight for Future

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  Preemption undoes all that work. [...] We remain against preemption in KOSA and COPPA 2.0, just like we are against preemption of state AI regulations.

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  Rob Bonta

  California attorney general

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  votes For and says:

  Any federal AI law should serve as a floor, not a ceiling, preserving flexibility for states to go further where necessary to protect their residents.

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  Teri Olle

  Director, Economic Security California Action

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  Including safety and transparency protections recommended by Gov. Newsom’s AI commission in SB 53 is an opportunity for California to be on the right side of history and advance commonsense AI regulations while our national leaders dither, In additi...

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  Maria Cantwell

  U.S. Senator from Washington

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  We need meaningful safeguards on AI to address the harms they cause. That is why we cannot tell states to stand down from protecting their kids, especially when we need Congress to put standards in place. [...] I think we need to be very loud and cle...

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  Randi Weingarten

  President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of the largest U.S. labor unions

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  Our response to the Great American AI Act is simple: Hard no. This bill is a giveaway to the AI industry and a handful of trillion-dollar companies, at the expense of American workers. [...] the Obernolte-Trahan bill blocks responsible state laws and...

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  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management; founder and president of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI)

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  Broad state preemption, in the form of presidential executive authority and the failed congressional moratorium, trades real protection against demonstrable harms, such as deepfake-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), AI-driven election frau...

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  Bruce Schneier

  Security technologist and author

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  In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states' ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. [...] By preempting state oversight, the federal...

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  Deborah Ross

  U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district

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  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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  Josh Gottheimer

  U.S. Representative from New Jersey

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  Today, the White House released its AI framework which broadly blocks state AI laws and lacks key consumer protections around AI models and agent safety. [...] Preemption only makes sense if federal law effectively replaces what states have built wit...

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  Erin Houchin

  U.S. Representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district (Republican); cosponsor of the Great American AI Act

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  America should lead the world in artificial intelligence, not regulate ourselves into falling behind China through a patchwork of fifty different state laws.

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  Marsha Blackburn

  U.S. Senator from Tennessee

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  Instead of pushing AI amnesty, President Trump rightfully called on Congress to pass federal standards and protections to solve the patchwork of state laws that has hindered AI innovation. Now, Congress must answer his call to establish one federal r...

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  Michael Kratsios

  U.S. OSTP Director

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  Creating a patchwork of AI laws where 50 different states all have different goals is ultimately going to hurt little tech and startups more than anyone else.

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  Andrew Ng

  Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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  I'm disappointed [the Big Beautiful Bill] didn't include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation. While there is a role for AI regulation, it is when the technology is new and poorly understood that lobbyists are most likely to succee...

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  Daniel Castro

  Director, Center for Data Innovation

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  The United States cannot remain competitive if developers, businesses, and users face fifty different legal regimes governing a general-purpose technology. [...] Congress should take this recommendation seriously and establish a light-touch national ...

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  David Sacks

  White House AI and crypto czar

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  In December, President Trump signed an Executive Order [...] “One Rulebook.” This was in response to a growing patchwork [...] America's lead in the AI race.

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  Jay Obernolte

  U.S. Representative from California

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  Rather than allow protections to exist in only a handful of states or force innovators to navigate dozens of different legal regimes, our framework would establish one national standard.

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