White House Drops AI Policy Framework: Federal Preemption, Light-Touch Regulation, and a Clear Shot at State Legislatures
The Trump administration released a four-page national AI legislative framework that prioritizes innovation over precaution and explicitly seeks to prevent states from enacting their own AI laws — a move that will reshape the regulatory landscape for every company building or deploying AI in the US.
The White House published a national AI policy framework on Friday that amounts to a declaration of regulatory philosophy: the federal government, not fifty state legislatures, will set the rules for artificial intelligence in America. As reported by @CNN, the blueprint explicitly aims to preempt state-level AI legislation, a move that has been lobbied for aggressively by major AI companies facing a patchwork of proposed and enacted state laws.
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