Regulating AI—or Silencing the States? As the United States races to establish a competitive edge in artificial intelligence, a controversial provision buried in a federal budget package has sparked intense debate. The proposal: a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI legislation. Supporters of the provision, passed by the House under the…
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Congress Is Gagging the States on AI—and Big Tech Is Loving It
AI Needs Guardrails—Not a Freeway With No Speed Limits Last week, the Senate advanced a version of President Trump’s sweeping budget package with a controversial addition: a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation, cleverly tied to broadband infrastructure funding. In plain English? States must keep their hands off AI governance—or…