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States should be allowed to regulate AI because realistically Congress won't


Let’s not give AI a decade-long free pass from regulation.

A provision in the “ Big Beautiful Bill ” (the massive federal spending and policy package currently being negotiated) aims to stop all state-level AI regulation for the next ten years. But I am saying that AI will require at least some well-crafted regulation to address some of its risks over the next ten years, and yet Congress has proven incapable of taking action. We helped pioneer Global Privacy Control, an opt-out signal that is on by default in our browser and extension, which has legal effect in California and other jurisdictions.

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