The Senate confirms the ban on state AI laws in the Trump budget bill

While the Republicans in the Congress are growing to adopt the so-called “major bill” by Donald Trump by July 4, the Senate parliamentarian has quietly examined his radical provisions. While certain controversial elements – such as instant expenditure cuts proposed – have been deleted, a surprising element has remained intact: a 10 -year moratorium blocking the regulatory states of artificial intelligence.

According to the Democrats of the Senate Budget Committee, the Senate parliamentarian said that the AI ​​moratorium complies with the special budgetary rules that the Republicans used to advance the bill. If it is adopted, the measurement prohibits states from applying new regulations on AI for a decade and would penalize those who would do it by retaining large -band federal funding.

The provision is not yet final – it can always be disputed on the Senate soil and only needs a simple majority vote to be drawn from the bill. However, he drew bipartite backlash. The representative of Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, notably admitted that she had not read the bill and said that she would have voted against this if she had known that the provision had been included.

If the expense package passes as is, it would mark a major victory for technological companies wishing to avoid a fragmented landscape of the laws on AI at the level of the state. Without the framework of a radical federal IA in place, the states have been left to navigate in a complex mixture of data confidentiality, copyright and algorithmic governance problems. This moratorium would effectively freeze these efforts on their traces.

Until now, 47 out of 50 US states have either promulgated or proposed a certain form of AI legislation, reflecting bipartite and bipartite concern concerning uncontrolled growth in technology. More than 200 legislators in the state of the two parties urged the congress to remove the moratorium, warning that it could replace a wide range of consumer protection laws.

These include regulations aimed at protecting children’s online security, responding to generating AI damage and supervising the way governments adopt and deploy AI systems.