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

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Arguments for

State backstop for federal gaps

Proponents argue states cannot wait for Washington when AI risks are already affecting residents. In their view, states have a responsibility to step in with guardrails, safety checks, and transparency until meaningful federal oversight exists.

As AI systems become more powerful and the federal government is unwilling to step in, states have a responsibility to protect our people from the dangers of AI while still harnessing the unique potential of the technology. People want protections from the risks of AI and Illinoi…

JB Pritzker · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Frontier model AI systems have the potential to be used for many good things. However, due to their massive computing power, they also could cause catastrophic events, such as cyberattacks or the system evading control by developers or users. In the absence of federal oversight o…

Kwame Raoul · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
We can no longer wait for Washington, D.C. to do the right thing and enact protections over these digital tools that give parents more control—it is time for the states to take action. This bill strikes a good balance between protecting children, ensuring workers are being treate…

Ned Lamont · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
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 regulation that protects people from po…

Brian Schatz · Mar 27, 2026 · full quote
Congress also must not stand in the way of states seeking to protect their residents from the risks posed by unregulated or inadequately governed AI technologies.

Alexandra Reeve Givens · Jan 14, 2026 · full quote

State policy experimentation

Supporters say states can pioneer safety tools such as independent audits, transparency frameworks, and third-party evaluations, creating templates that other states, Congress, or a broader national approach can build on. They present stricter state standards as experimentation that strengthens governance.

Governor Pritzker and the Illinois legislature are courageously supporting stronger safeguards to oversee powerful AI. Illinois is the first state to mandate independent third-party evaluations of AI safety practices, making its AI law the strongest in the country.

Nick Beckstead · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
SB 315 passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support because lawmakers recognize the same basic truth: the public demands safety and transparency from the AI companies shaping their future. Illinois has created a new template for responsible AI governance that we expect other stat…

Steve Wimmer · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
This represents an important consumer safety check on a growing industry that has intimate access to our personal information. I’m proud of the work the sponsors have done to set a standard for safety, responsibility and transparency that I hope serves as a national model.

Don Harmon · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Good AI policy requires independent verification of safety. AB 1405 will take a significant step in creating the ecosystem for independent verification to become a reality. By working in concert with Sen. McNerney we are building a framework where California leads the way in crea…

Rebecca Bauer-Kahan · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
AI has tremendous potential to improve our lives, but without sufficient guardrails, it also poses significant risks. Under SB 813, California will become the first state to create voluntary standards for the responsible development of AI. I’m also proud to partner with Asm. Baue…

Jerry McNerney · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
States can and should experiment with regulation, standard-setting, public-private partnerships, public goals–conditioned funding, and other efforts to protect their citizens from AI’s downsides and ensure they capture its upsides.

Alondra Nelson · 2026 · full quote

Responding to local harms

Proponents argue state authority is needed because AI is deployed in concrete areas like hiring, health care, education, chatbots, deepfakes, and child protection. They say states and localities are better positioned to respond to emerging harms affecting their own communities, workers, and public resources.

“I was proud to work alongside my colleagues and the governor’s office to deliver legislation that strikes the right balance between protecting Connecticut residents and fostering innovation,” Senator Maroney said. “This bill safeguards children from the dangers of unregulated AI…

James Maroney · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
Our kids are at risk, and it has led to many being hurt mentally and even physically by the engineered design of most social media and artificial intelligence platforms that put profits over the safety of their users. I’m proud that Connecticut is stepping up with the passage of …

Gary Turco · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
It’s incumbent on state legislators to protect the welfare of our young people. We should employ policy measures that take the onus off K-12 students to protect themselves from predatory use of A.I. chatbots and generative deepfakes.

Chris Pielli · Mar 19, 2026 · full quote
This proposal lacks meaningful guardrails and ignores the real impacts AI is already having on jobs, communities, and local resources - from rising energy demand and skyrocketing costs to increased water use. It also takes the wrong approach by attempting to preempt state and loc…

Valerie Foushee · Mar 20, 2026 · full quote
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 fraud, and automated hiring discri…

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld · 2026 · full quote
States need the ability to respond to new harms as they emerge, and Congress recognized that when it rejected the moratorium provision. Wisconsin has demonstrated that this can be done responsibly, practically, and in a bipartisan way.

Tony Evers · 2026 · full quote

Regulatory vacuum concerns

Supporters contend that broad preemption without robust replacement rules would leave major risks unaddressed, weaken transparency and accountability, and nullify protections states have already built. Several frame this as giving large AI companies freer rein while the public remains exposed.

The sweeping preemption clause in this bill goes far beyond replacing state laws that might conflict or duplicate this federal framework. It locks states out of even simple, light-touch transparency and evaluation regulations for other kinds of harms or risks. We cannot advance A…

Nicholas Garcia · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
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 be a backstop for tech accoun…

Brad Carson · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
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 aims to kill state AI laws with…

Don Beyer · 2026 · full quote
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 risks that Big Tech companies ar…

Robert Weissman · 2026 · full quote
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 government is effectively cre…

Bruce Schneier · 2026 · full quote
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 gives free rein to a handful …

Randi Weingarten · 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Patchwork compliance burdens

Opponents argue that fifty different state regimes would create inconsistent rules, definitions, and reporting obligations that raise costs and complicate compliance for firms operating across state lines. They say uniform federal preemption would reduce fragmentation, especially for smaller firms and startups.

Preempting state AI laws would prevent regulatory fragmentation and enable the innovation America needs to compete in the global AI race, while allowing existing laws and regulations that are flexible enough to govern AI effectively to continue to do so.

Ash Johnson · Jun 10, 2026 · full quote
At the same time, some states and localities are moving ahead independently with their own AI regulations. New York, California, Colorado, and others have begun implementing policies intended to address privacy, discrimination, and other workforce concerns. However, some have rai…

Ryan Mackenzie · Apr 15, 2026 · full quote
Congress has an opportunity to foster this innovation by adopting a regulatory approach that is careful, deliberate, and grounded in the realities of wage and hour compliance. That means resisting the temptation to impose prescriptive mandates that would stifle the development an…

Matthew Gizzo · Apr 15, 2026 · full quote
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.

Michael Kratsios · 2026 · full quote
If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race.

David Sacks · 2025 · full quote
Congress should strongly consider enacting a national standard that streamlines compliance and expressly preempts conflicting state and local frameworks.

Bradford J. Kelley · Feb 3, 2026 · full quote

One national rulebook

Opponents say AI needs a single federal framework so protections and obligations apply uniformly rather than in only some states. In their view, Congress or the federal government should establish the rules of the road for responsible development, safety, and accountability.

"Artificial intelligence is already transforming our economy, our national security and the way Americans live and work," said Congressman Scott Franklin (FL-18). " Congress has a responsibility to establish clear rules of the road that encourage innovation while ensuring this te…

Scott Franklin · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
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.

Jay Obernolte · 2026 · full quote
Importantly, this framework can succeed only if it is applied uniformly across the United States. A patchwork of conflicting state laws would undermine American innovation and our ability to lead in the global AI race.

The White House · Mar 20, 2026 · full quote
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 rulebook for AI to protect chil…

Marsha Blackburn · Mar 18, 2026 · full quote
“There’s no doubt that AI is rapidly transforming how we live and work. The question now is whether America develops the rules of the road and leads the future of this extremely powerful tool, or if we let adversaries like China set the terms,” Fedorchak said. “It cannot be the l…

Julie Fedorchak · Mar 20, 2026 · full quote

Competitiveness and innovation risk

Opponents contend that state-by-state regulation could slow innovation, weaken jobs and national security, and undercut U.S. leadership in the global AI race. Several explicitly warn that America should not regulate itself into falling behind foreign competitors.

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

Erin Houchin · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
“Like it or not, artificial intelligence is here to stay. The U.S. can choose to lead the world in this transformative technology or we can regulate it into the hands of Communist China. If we care about American jobs, national security and staying ahead of our foreign adversarie…

Gabe Evans · Feb 19, 2026 · full quote
“Artificial intelligence is already transforming economies across the globe, and it’s not going away. The question is not whether AI will shape the future, it’s who will set the standards that govern its development and use. The United States is best positioned to establish stron…

Nick Langworthy · Feb 19, 2026 · full quote
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 framework that preserves room …

Daniel Castro · 2026 · full quote
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.

David Sacks · Mar 20, 2026 · full quote
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 succeed at pushing through anti-comp…

Andrew Ng · 2026 · full quote

Output mandate concerns

Some opponents argue certain state laws can go beyond safety and pressure companies to alter model outputs to match a state's ideological objectives. They present this as a risk of letting states impose their own stricter AI standards.

Some state laws seek to impose their own patchwork of regulations on AI. Colorado’s Artificial Intelligence Act, for instance, appears to coerce companies into altering the output of their AI models to comply with and advance the state’s ideological objectives.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Colorado’s Artificial Intelligence Act, for instance, appears to coerce companies into altering the output of their AI models to comply with and advance the state’s ideological objectives.

Andrew N. Ferguson · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Shared governance approach

Some quotes divide responsibilities, saying the federal government is better positioned to lead on frontier safety because it has the resources, expertise, and institutions, while states retain room to shape aligned frameworks, deployment rules, or procurement standards. This treats state standards as a complement to federal action, especially when federal law is weak or absent.

While we have been very clear that the federal government remains well-positioned to lead on frontier safety because it has the resources, expertise and institutions, we also strongly actually see a position for both Illinois but also California and New York to really lead in adv…

Caitlin Niedermeyer · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
States, meanwhile, would retain full power to govern how AI is deployed and used, from hiring and housing to health care, education, chatbots, and more.

Lori Trahan · Jun 12, 2026 · full quote
While the federal government dismantles contracting standards and removes basic protections for Americans, Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order to explore stronger AI standards for state procurement — ensuring that companies demonstrate responsible policies and m…

Office of Governor Gavin Newsom · Mar 30, 2026 · full quote
Absent a strong federal law, states should retain full authority to legislate.

Anthropic · Jun 2026 · full quote

National floor with state room

Some supporters say a national AI standard could make sense only if it actually replaces state laws with protections at least as strong or stronger. Otherwise, they argue, federal law should function as a floor that preserves states' flexibility to go further.

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 with a standard that meets higher…

Josh Gottheimer · 2026 · full quote
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.

Brendan Steinhauser · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
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.

Rob Bonta · 2025 · full quote
There have been efforts, however, to prevent states from enacting new protections and to nullify existing state safeguards—leaving workers vulnerable when employers deploy discriminatory and exploitative AI systems in the workplace. Any federal legislation should be a floor, not …

Tanya L. Goldman · Feb 3, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Across the debate, speakers on both sides say AI needs safeguards, but they disagree over whether safety is better served by state flexibility or federal uniformity.
Supporters repeatedly justify state action as a response to federal delay, absence, or unwillingness to regulate.
Opponents repeatedly describe state regulation as a patchwork that would burden multistate businesses, startups, and national competitiveness.
Several pro-state quotes describe Illinois, California, and Connecticut as policy laboratories whose standards could become national models or a de facto direction of travel.
The quotes span both frontier-model oversight and sector-specific uses such as hiring, housing, health care, education, procurement, chatbots, deepfakes, and child safety.

The debate is less about whether AI should be governed than about which level of government should lead and how much room the other level should keep. Supporters emphasize state backstops, experimentation, and the need to address concrete harms now, while opponents emphasize uniformity, compliance simplicity, and national competitiveness. A narrower middle position appears in quotes that accept federal leadership or even a national standard only if states still have meaningful room to act or the federal protections are at least as strong.

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Chris Lehane
OpenAI chief global affairs officer

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State laws will not all be identical, and we look forward to working with policymakers across the country to ensure they strengthen safety while maximizing AI’s economic benefits.
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Global Affairs representative at OpenAI, working on artificial intelligence policy and governance.

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While we have been very clear that the federal government remains well-positioned to lead on frontier safety because it has the resources, expertise and institutions, we also strongly actually see a position for both Illinois but also California and ...
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Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.

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The advancements we’ve seen in just the past few years show the tremendous potential that new technology has to transform our economy, remove barriers, and create opportunity—but it also raises critical questions about everything from safety, to our ...
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Encode AI political affairs VP

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SB 315 is the strongest AI safety law in the country. It builds on the frameworks California and New York have already passed and goes one step further by requiring independent audits, so the public doesn’t have to take AI companies at their word. Il...
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CEO of the Secure AI Project; advocate for AI safety policy and evaluation standards.

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Governor Pritzker and the Illinois legislature are courageously supporting stronger safeguards to oversee powerful AI. Illinois is the first state to mandate independent third-party evaluations of AI safety practices, making its AI law the strongest ...
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Mary Edly-Allen
Illinois State Senator (D-Libertyville); lead sponsor of SB 315, a frontier AI safety and transparency bill requiring independent third-party audits of major AI developers

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This bipartisan law is about putting responsible safeguards in place before a preventable catastrophe occurs. Illinois has an opportunity to lead the nation by setting clear expectations for transparency, accountability and public safety. While artif...
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Senior Technical and Policy Advisor at Transparency Coalition; advocates accountable AI governance and state leadership.

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SB 315 passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support because lawmakers recognize the same basic truth: the public demands safety and transparency from the AI companies shaping their future. Illinois has created a new template for responsible AI govern...
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Illinois State Representative (Democrat); lead House sponsor of SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act

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The pace of AI development and the capabilities of frontier models are accelerating, and the General Assembly has an obligation to ensure that Illinois residents are protected from catastrophic outcomes. This legislation puts enforceable guardrails i...
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Don Harmon
President of the Illinois Senate; backs state AI safety, responsibility, and transparency standards.

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This represents an important consumer safety check on a growing industry that has intimate access to our personal information. I’m proud of the work the sponsors have done to set a standard for safety, responsibility and transparency that I hope serv...
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Kwame Raoul
Attorney General of Illinois; supports state AI guardrails and transparency in the absence of federal oversight.

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Frontier model AI systems have the potential to be used for many good things. However, due to their massive computing power, they also could cause catastrophic events, such as cyberattacks or the system evading control by developers or users. In the ...
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Juliana Stratton
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois; advocates responsible AI safeguards and public accountability.

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Artificial intelligence is creating incredible opportunities, but it also brings new risks, especially for young people. Illinois is showing that innovation and accountability can go hand in hand by setting clear expectations that help protect our co...
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Governor of Illinois; signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act in 2026.

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As AI systems become more powerful and the federal government is unwilling to step in, states have a responsibility to protect our people from the dangers of AI while still harnessing the unique potential of the technology. People want protections fr...
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Robert Fulk
Indiana Secretary of State official discussing AI governance and state regulatory authority.

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The federal government should establish baseline national standards for areas such as security, privacy, civil rights, transparency, and interstate consistency. States should retain flexibility to address implementation, public sector use, and issues...
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California State Assembly member

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Good AI policy requires independent verification of safety. AB 1405 will take a significant step in creating the ecosystem for independent verification to become a reality. By working in concert with Sen. McNerney we are building a framework where Ca...
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California state senator

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AI has tremendous potential to improve our lives, but without sufficient guardrails, it also poses significant risks. Under SB 813, California will become the first state to create voluntary standards for the responsible development of AI. I’m also p...
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U.S. representative from Massachusetts

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States, meanwhile, would retain full power to govern how AI is deployed and used, from hiring and housing to health care, education, chatbots, and more.
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Nicholas Garcia
Senior Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, working on technology policy and AI governance.

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The sweeping preemption clause in this bill goes far beyond replacing state laws that might conflict or duplicate this federal framework. It locks states out of even simple, light-touch transparency and evaluation regulations for other kinds of harms...
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Jina John
Senior Policy Counsel for AI, Privacy and Technology at the ACLU.

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States must be able to protect their own residents from harm, hold tech companies accountable, and ensure that AI is safe and trustworthy.
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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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Connecticut State Senator (D, 14th District); co-chair of the General Law Committee; lead author of Connecticut's SB5 AI law

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“I was proud to work alongside my colleagues and the governor’s office to deliver legislation that strikes the right balance between protecting Connecticut residents and fostering innovation,” Senator Maroney said. “This bill safeguards children from...
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Hubert Delany
Connecticut state representative.

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Artificial intelligence is already shaping the information we see, the jobs people apply for, the services we use, and the decisions that affect our daily lives. With the C.A.R.T. Act, Connecticut is choosing to lead with clear rules, public trust, a...
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Gary Turco
Connecticut state representative and vice chair of the General Law Committee.

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Our kids are at risk, and it has led to many being hurt mentally and even physically by the engineered design of most social media and artificial intelligence platforms that put profits over the safety of their users. I’m proud that Connecticut is st...
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William Tong
Attorney General of Connecticut.

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Connecticut is done waiting for the tech elites and Washington to do right by our families. The tech bros look at our kids, our jobs, our way of life and they see dollar signs. They know their social media platforms are addictive, harmful, and divisi...
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Connecticut Senate Majority Leader

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Connecticut has once again shown that states don’t have to wait for Washington to act in the best interests of their residents. This law protects our children from addictive algorithms designed to hook them, ensures workers know when AI is making dec...
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Ned Lamont
Governor of Connecticut

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We can no longer wait for Washington, D.C. to do the right thing and enact protections over these digital tools that give parents more control—it is time for the states to take action. This bill strikes a good balance between protecting children, ens...
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AI safety research company

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Absent a strong federal law, states should retain full authority to legislate.
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Cesar Fernandez
Head of U.S. State and Local Government Relations at Anthropic

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As these models grow more powerful, this kind of enforceable accountability matters more than ever. Illinois lawmakers have set a new standard, and we hope other states and the federal government build on their dedication to AI safety.
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Chris Murphy
U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut)

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Donald Trump only cares about protecting the profits of his billionaire buddies in the AI industry. 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 u...
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While the federal government dismantles contracting standards and removes basic protections for Americans, Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order to explore stronger AI standards for state procurement — ensuring that companies demonstr...
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Brian Schatz
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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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Marissa Saldivar
Spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom, speaking on California AI consumer-safety policy.

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Yet again, Donald Trump is trying to gut laws in California that keep our residents safe and protect consumers — a core state responsibility.
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Ted Lieu
U.S. Representative from California.

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Congress has the responsibility to establish a national framework for AI and any attempt by Donald Trump to create laws through executive order is a sham. It is Congress' responsibility to check this overreach of the presidency. Pleased to work with ...
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Valerie Foushee
U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act

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This proposal lacks meaningful guardrails and ignores the real impacts AI is already having on jobs, communities, and local resources - from rising energy demand and skyrocketing costs to increased water use. It also takes the wrong approach by attem...
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Sara Jacobs
U.S. Representative from California's 51st congressional district

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President Trump's laissez-faire approach to AI regulation and trampling on states' AI rights is incredibly dangerous for Americans' rights and safety. Congress should be proactively creating the rules of the road to protect people while encouraging i...
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April McClain Delaney
U.S. Representative from Maryland's 6th congressional district

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I’ve built my career advocating for digital protections for our most vulnerable Americans, including children and seniors, from cyber threats like fraud, data breaches, deepfakes, and more. Businesses do better—and strive to do better—when commonsens...
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Chris Pielli
Pennsylvania state representative for the 156th District; sponsors AI safety protections for young people.

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It’s incumbent on state legislators to protect the welfare of our young people. We should employ policy measures that take the onus off K-12 students to protect themselves from predatory use of A.I. chatbots and generative deepfakes.
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Josh Shapiro
Governor of Pennsylvania

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The Commonwealth should be a leader in holding bad actors accountable and creating guardrails that allow Pennsylvanians to use new technology responsibly.
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Tanya L. Goldman
Labor policy expert and workers' rights advocate; testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce in 2026.

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There have been efforts, however, to prevent states from enacting new protections and to nullify existing state safeguards—leaving workers vulnerable when employers deploy discriminatory and exploitative AI systems in the workplace. Any federal legis...
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Communications Workers of America District 1
Labor union district representing workers in New York, New Jersey, New England, and eastern Canada.

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While the President’s recent Executive Order titled “Ensuring a National Police Framework for Artificial Intelligence” threatens preemption and retaliation for implementing AI policy, we believe it is critical to continue fighting for protections on ...
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Alexandra Reeve Givens
President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology; technology policy advocate and congressional witness.

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Congress also must not stand in the way of states seeking to protect their residents from the risks posed by unregulated or inadequately governed AI technologies.
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David Beier
Managing director at Bay City Capital; former chief domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore; California Little Hoover Commission member.

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States possess police powers over public safety and consumer protection. There is a presumption against preemption, unless the U.S. Congress has made its intention clear and manifest.
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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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Alondra Nelson
Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study; former Acting Director of the White House OSTP

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States can and should experiment with regulation, standard-setting, public-private partnerships, public goals–conditioned funding, and other efforts to protect their citizens from AI’s downsides and ensure they capture its upsides.
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Tony Evers
Governor of Wisconsin; advocates preserving state authority to protect communities from AI harms.

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States need the ability to respond to new harms as they emerge, and Congress recognized that when it rejected the moratorium provision. Wisconsin has demonstrated that this can be done responsibly, practically, and in a bipartisan way.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some state laws seek to impose their own patchwork of regulations on AI. Colorado’s Artificial Intelligence Act, for instance, appears to coerce companies into altering the output of their AI models to comply with and advance the state’s ideological ...
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Andrew N. Ferguson
Chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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Colorado’s Artificial Intelligence Act, for instance, appears to coerce companies into altering the output of their AI models to comply with and advance the state’s ideological objectives.
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Ash Johnson
Senior Policy Manager at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, focusing on technology policy.

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Preempting state AI laws would prevent regulatory fragmentation and enable the innovation America needs to compete in the global AI race, while allowing existing laws and regulations that are flexible enough to govern AI effectively to continue to do...
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Scott Franklin
U.S. Representative from Florida; member of the House Appropriations Committee

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"Artificial intelligence is already transforming our economy, our national security and the way Americans live and work," said Congressman Scott Franklin (FL-18). " Congress has a responsibility to establish clear rules of the road that encourage inn...
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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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Ryan Mackenzie
U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania; chaired a 2026 House hearing on AI's economic impact on workers and employers.

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At the same time, some states and localities are moving ahead independently with their own AI regulations. New York, California, Colorado, and others have begun implementing policies intended to address privacy, discrimination, and other workforce co...
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Matthew Gizzo
Shareholder at Ogletree Deakins and co-chair of the firm's Technology Practice Group; testified to Congress on AI's workplace impact in 2026.

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Congress has an opportunity to foster this innovation by adopting a regulatory approach that is careful, deliberate, and grounded in the realities of wage and hour compliance. That means resisting the temptation to impose prescriptive mandates that w...
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Julie Fedorchak
U.S. Representative from North Dakota; member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee

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“There’s no doubt that AI is rapidly transforming how we live and work. The question now is whether America develops the rules of the road and leads the future of this extremely powerful tool, or if we let adversaries like China set the terms,” Fedor...
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The White House
Executive office of U.S. president

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Importantly, this framework can succeed only if it is applied uniformly across the United States. A patchwork of conflicting state laws would undermine American innovation and our ability to lead in the global AI race.
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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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Nick Langworthy
U.S. Representative from New York; member of the House Agriculture and Oversight committees

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“Artificial intelligence is already transforming economies across the globe, and it’s not going away. The question is not whether AI will shape the future, it’s who will set the standards that govern its development and use. The United States is best...
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Gabe Evans
U.S. Representative from Colorado; member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

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“Like it or not, artificial intelligence is here to stay. The U.S. can choose to lead the world in this transformative technology or we can regulate it into the hands of Communist China. If we care about American jobs, national security and staying a...
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Bradford J. Kelley
Employment attorney and former EEOC and Department of Labor official; testified to Congress on workplace AI in 2026.

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Congress should strongly consider enacting a national standard that streamlines compliance and expressly preempts conflicting state and local frameworks.
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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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