Why the AI Moratorium’s Defeat May Signal a New Political Era

Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era

A diverse group of politicians came together to beat back a 10-year moratorium on state and local governments’ right to regulate artificial intelligence.

War Room's Steve Bannon and Senator Josh Hawley Discuss Lawmakers' Attempt to Put AI Moratorium in Defense Bill

War Room’s Steve Bannon talks with Senator Josh Hawley about lawmakers’ attempt to slip AI moratorium into the defense bill.

American AI Industry Threatened by Failure of AI Moratorium in the Senate

The future of AI looked bright last week when the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the provision could be passed through reconciliation. Thanks to the efforts of Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz, who altered the moratorium to tie it to BEAD funding, the final draft had a substantial budgetary impact. But once the vote-a-rama began, the future looked bleaker. Early Tuesday morning, the Senate adopted an amendment to remove the…

Why the AI Moratorium’s Defeat May Signal a New Political Era

(MIT Technology Review) – It’s almost certainly the case that the moratorium’s breadth, as well as its decade-long duration, helped opponents marshall a diverse coalition to their side. But that breadth isn’t incidental—it’s related to the very nature of AI. Blackburn, who represents country musicians in Nashville, and Wiener, who represents software developers in San Francisco, have a shared interest in AI regulation precisely because such a po…

AI REGS & RISKS: And So... Regulatory Chaos Ensues

By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The Senate’s 99-1 vote on July 1 to delete a ten-year freeze on new state AI laws from the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was billed as a win for innovation. By dawn, it had opened the floodgates: every statehouse is suddenly free to legislate at will, and policy trackers count well over a thousand AI bills in play this year.  Click Here to Learn More About the AI Readiness Program for Financial & Wealthtech Firms …

Why The AI Moratorium’s Defeat May Signal A New Political Era - Data Intelligence

Granted, there’s an argument to be made that the moratorium’s defeat was highly contingent. Blackburn appears to have been motivated almost entirely by concerns about children’s online safety and the rights of country musicians to control their own likenesses; state lawmakers, meanwhile, were affronted by the federal government’s attempt to defang legislation that they had already passed. And even though powerful technology firms such as Andrees…