A Republican attempt to prevent states from enforcing their own AI instructions knew an important procedural obstacle on Saturday.
The rule, if Reported rewritten by Senate Trade Chairman Ted Cruz In an attempt to comply with the budgetary rules, the federal broadband financing of states would withstand if they try to enforce the AI regulations in the next 10 years.
And the rewriting seems to have passed, with The Senate parliamentarian is now ruling The fact that the provision is not subject to the so-called Byrd rule-Dus can be included in the “one large, beautiful bill” of the Republicans and adopted by a simple majority, without being possible to be blocked by a filibuster, and without the support of Senate democrats.
However, it is not clear how many Republicans the moratorium will support. Republican senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee for example Recently said“We don’t need a moratorium that would forbid our states to act and protect citizens in their state.”
And while the House of Representatives has already adopted a version of the bill with a moratorium on AI Regulation, extreme right-wing representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Subb then declared That she is ‘deserting’ is the provision as ‘a violation of the constitutional rights’ and said that it must be ‘stripped in the Senate’.
House speaker Mike Johnson defended the provision By saying that it had the support of President Donald Trump and argued: “We must be careful that we do not have 50 different states that regulate AI, because it has implications of national security, right?”
In A recent reportAmericans for responsible innovation (a interest group for AI regulation), wrote that “the broad language of the proposal may be a wide range of legislation on constitutional rights that regulate AI and other algorithmic technologies, creating a regulatory vacuum to the offer of the offered of Federale.”
A number of states seem to take steps in the direction of AI Regulation. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom pronounced a veto last year for a high-profile AI safety account, while he signed a number of less controversial regulations on issues such as privacy and deepfakes. In New York, an AI Safety Act awaits by the state legislators for the signature of Governor Kathy Hochul. And Utah has adopted its own regulations around AI transparency.
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