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Stopping States From Passing AI Laws for the Next Decade is a Terrible Idea
This week, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee moved forward with a proposal in its budget reconciliation bill to impose a ten-year preemption of state AI regulation—essentially saying only Congress, not state legislatures, can place safeguards on AI for the next decade.We strongly oppose...
Or, as a number of state lawmakers who are leading on tech policy issues from across the country said in a recent joint open letter, “If Washington wants to pass a comprehensive privacy or AI law with teeth, more power to them, but we all know this is unlikely.” Many state AI proposals struggle to find the right balance between innovation and speech, on the one hand, and consumer protection and equal opportunity, on the other. While far from perfect, the bill set down basic requirements to give people visibility into how companies use AI to make consequential decisions about them.
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