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Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle


A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.

A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday. House Speaker Mike Johnson defended the provision by saying it had President Donald Trump’s support and arguing, “We have to be careful not to have 50 different states regulating AI, because it has national security implications, right?” In a recent report, Americans for Responsible Innovation (an advocacy group for AI regulation), wrote that “the proposal’s broad language could potentially sweep away a wide range of public interest state legislation regulating AI and other algorithmic-based technologies, creating a regulatory vacuum across multiple technology policy domains without offering federal alternatives to replace the eliminated state-level guardrails.”

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Big Tech is pushing for a 10-year ban on AI regulation by individual US states. People familiar with the moves said lobbyists are acting on behalf of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta to urge the US Senate to enact the moratorium.