Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle

A republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own regulations on AI has erased a key procedural obstacle on Saturday.

The rule, as would have been rewritten by the president of the trade of the Senate Ted Cruz In order to comply with budgetary rules, retain federal funding for the broad stripe of states if they wanted to enforce AI regulations over the next 10 years.

And the rewriting seems to have succeeded, with The Senate parliamentarian was now governing That the provision is not subject to the so -called rule byrd – so it can be included in “a large and beautiful bill” of the Republicans and adopted with a simple majority, without being potentially blocked by an obstacle and without requiring the support of the Democrats of the Senate.

However, it is not clear how many republicans will support the moratorium. For example, the republican senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee recently said“We do not need a moratorium that would prohibit our states from intensifying and protecting citizens of their state.”

And while the House of Representatives has already adopted a version of the bill which included a moratorium on AI regulation, the far right representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Sub-declared that it is “categorically opposed” to disposition as “a violation of the rights of the state” and said that it should be “eliminated in the Senate”.

Mike Johnson room president defend the arrangement By saying that it had the support and support of President Donald Trump, “we must be careful not to have 50 different states regulating AI because he has implications for national security, right?”

In A recent reportAmericans for responsible innovation (a advocacy group for AI regulation), has written that “the general language of the proposal could potentially sweep a wide range of public interest laws regulating AI and other technologies based on algorithms, creating a regulatory vacuum in several areas of technological policy without providing federal alternatives to replace the accumulations of the basis of the eliminated state.”. “”

A number of states seem to be Take measures to AI regulation. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom Opposed to a high -level AI security bill last year while signing a number of Less controversial regulations Around questions like private life and deep buttocks. In New York, A bill on AI security adopted by state legislators awaits the signature of governor Kathy Hochul. And Utah has adopted its own regulations concerning the transparency of AI.