A democratic effort to prevent states from imposing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural obstacle on Saturday.
The rule, Reportedly, the president of the Senate TED Cruz Senate In an effort to comply with the budget rules, it would withhold federal broadband states by the states if they try to impose AI regulations in the next 10 years.
And the re -registration seems to have gone through the concentration, with Senate MP is now governing That the provision is not subject to the so-called Byrd rule can be included in the “big, beautiful bill” of Republicans and pass by a simple majority, without blocking a filibuster and without requiring support from the Senate Democrats.
However, it is not clear how many Republicans will support the moratorium. For example, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee recently said“We do not need a moratorium that would ban our states from reinforcing and protecting citizens in their state.”
And while the House of Representatives has already passed a bill that included a Moratorium for AI Regulation, far -right spokesman Marjorie Taylor Greene He then preached That is “categorically” the provision as a “violation of state rights” and said it must be “stripped of the Senate”.
Mike Johnson House Talkor defended the moratorium He said he had the support of President Donald Trump and argued: “We must be careful not to have 50 different states that regulate AI because they have national security consequences, right?”
In A recent reportThe Americans for the responsible innovation (a defense team for AI) wrote that “the broad language of the proposal could potentially scan a wide range of legislation of the state of public interest that regulates AI and other technologies based on algorithms, to replace the elimination of state guards.
Some states appear to take measures to AI Regulation. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a high -profile AI security bill last year, while signing several less controversial regulations on issues such as privacy and deep. In New York, a AI security bill passed by state legislators awaits the signature of Governor Kathy Hochul. And Utah has passed his own regulations around AI’s slide.
