Suspension on state AI regulations clears Senate hurdles
Republican efforts to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared key procedural hurdles on Saturday.
Rules, as It was reportedly rewritten by Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz. In order to comply with budgetary regulations, we will withhold federal broadband funds from our states if we intend to implement AI regulations over the next decade.
And it appears that the rewrite handed over the convocation Currently a member of the Senate This provision is not subject to the so-called bird rules. So it can be included in the “one big beautiful bill” of Republicans, and pass with a simple majority without the possibility of being blocked by a filibuster and without the need for support from Senate Democrats.
However, it is not clear how many Republicans support the suspension. For example, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee I recently said“We don’t need a moratorium that prohibits states from protecting them through citizens of their state.”
And while the House has already passed a version of the bill that includes a suspension on AI regulations, far-right representative Marjorie Taylor Greene It was later declared She said she was “decisively opposed” as a “violation of national rights” and needed to be “deprived by the Senate.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended the regulations He said he has support from President Donald Trump, “We need to be careful not to regulate AI because of national security implications, 50 different states, right?”
in Recent ReportsAmericans for Responsible Innovation (AI Regulation Advocacy Group) wrote, “The broad language of proposals could potentially clean up the laws of a wide range of public interest states regulating AI and other algorithm-based technologies, creating a regulatory vacuum across multiple technology domains without providing a federal alternative.”
Apparently many states are Take measures to regulate AI. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom Rejected a famous AI safety bill Many signings last year Less controversial regulations Regarding issues such as privacy and deep fakes. In New York, AI Safety Invoice Passed by State Legislatures We are waiting for the signature of Governor Kathy Hochul. And Utah has Passed its own regulations on AI transparency.