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

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  Cesar Fernandez

  Head of U.S. State and Local Government Relations at Anthropic

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  SB 315 takes the safety practices leading labs already follow voluntarily—publishing a safety framework, transparent reporting, protecting whistleblowers—and helps establish a baseline that every leading AI developer is expected to meet. [...] Illino...

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  Doug Fiefia

  Utah State Representative (Republican); former Google employee; co-chair of a national task force on state AI policy

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  The Trump administration is, "We want zero regulations on AI." I think that's wrong. [...] I disagree with him on this.

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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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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  A moratorium on Statewise regulation of AI was and is, a terrible idea, especially in a world in which there is no coherent Federal response to AI. [...] A call for federal AI standards in lieu of state standards only makes sense if there are (sensib...

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  Chris Murphy

  U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut)

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  votes For and says:

  States have to be able to protect American families from a technology that could destroy millions of jobs, addict kids to harmful chatbots, drive up utility bills, and deepen the crisis of loneliness [...]

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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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  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:

  White House AI czar David Sacks continues to do the bidding of Big Tech at the expense of regular, hardworking Americans. This federal AI framework seeks to prevent states from legislating on AI and provides no path to accountability for AI developer...

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  Josh Hawley

  U.S. Senator for Missouri

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  I'm encouraged that the framework carves out whole bunches of state laws, you know, particularly the children's safety laws. Those should be allowed to remain in place no matter what.

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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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  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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  Gavin Newsom

  Governor of California

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  votes For and says:

  California leads in AI, and we're going to use every tool we have to ensure companies protect people's rights, not exploit them or put them in harm's way. [...] While others in Washington are designing policy and creating contracts in the shadow of m...

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  Michael Kleinman

  Head of U.S. Policy at the Future of Life Institute; former AI policy staff at Meta and Amnesty International USA

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  Big Tech and their allies in the administration are desperate to stop states from regulating AI, even as it ravages families, eliminates jobs, and threatens to replace humans wholesale. Any legislative framework that includes federal preemption witho...

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  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  American actor and entrepreneur

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  votes For and says:

  The federal government hasn't done anything about this yet, but thank goodness, the states are stepping up. Utah has been a leader in the past, protecting kids against these predatory tech companies. Now I think it's time for Utah to be that leader a...

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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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  Deborah Ross

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

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  votes For and says:

  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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  Brian Schatz

  U.S. Senator (D–Hawaii)

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  votes For and says:

  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 and Republicans are trying to do. Preventing states from enacting common-sense regulation th...

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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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  votes For and says:

  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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  Josh Gottheimer

  U.S. Representative from New Jersey

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  votes For and says:

  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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  Samir Jain

  Vice President of Policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)

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  votes For and says:

  The White House's high-level AI framework contains some sound statements of principles, but its usefulness to lawmakers is limited by its internal contradictions and failure to grapple with key tensions between various approaches to important topics ...

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  Brad Carson

  Americans for Responsible Innovation president

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  After witnessing the harmful impact of the tech industry's move-fast-break-things mantra during the rise of social media platforms, the public wants safeguards now. What's most disturbing is that the framework recommends both banning state laws on AI...

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  Spencer Cox

  Governor of Utah; chair of the National Governors Association (2024–2025)

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  Let's use this technology to benefit humankind, and let's regulate it to make sure they don't destroy humankind. I don't think that's a contradiction. I think that's common sense, and I think that's where most Americans are. [...] It's one thing if w...

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  Alondra Nelson

  Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study; former Acting Director of the White House OSTP

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  This is not deregulation. It is hyper-regulation by other means. [...] When consequential decisions are made through executive discretion rather than deliberative process, they escape ordinary channels of accountability. [...] Democratic accountabili...

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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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  Cody Venzke

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

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  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 ...

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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:

  Clearly we have a right to do this. [...] An executive order can't block states. You can preempt states under Article 1 powers through congressional legislation on certain issues, but you can't do it through executive order.

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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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  Neil Richards

  Law professor, tech and privacy

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  Congress is allowed to operate in ways to set a general national standard but still allows States to experiment with stronger standards

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  Rob Bonta

  California attorney general

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  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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  Jay Obernolte

  U.S. Representative from California

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  votes Against and says:

  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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  Dean W. Ball

  AI policy writer

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  You cannot preempt all of these [state AI] laws piece-by-piece; broad-based preemption of some kind is essential, and anyone who pretends otherwise is simply not engaging with the reality on the ground.

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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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  votes Against and says:

  This was in response to a growing patchwork of 50 different state regulatory regimes that threaten to stifle innovation and jeopardize America's lead in the AI race. [...] In December, President Trump signed an Executive Order tasking us with the dev...

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  Marsha Blackburn

  U.S. Senator from Tennessee

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  votes Against and says:

  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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  Adam Thierer

  R Street Institute senior fellow

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  Congress could [...] formally preempt specific State and local regulatory enactments that impose an undue burden on interstate algorithmic commerce.

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  Donald J. Trump

  U.S. President (2025–present)

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  establishing a uniform Federal policy framework for AI that preempts State AI laws that conflict with the policy set forth in this order.

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