The state could not implement rules on artificial intelligence technology for a decade under a scheme being considered in the US House of Representatives. In the amendment to the Budget Bill of the Federal Government, no state or political subdivision “can not enforce any law or regulation of any law or regulation, artificial intelligence system or any law or regulation that regulates automated decision systems. The proposal will still require approval of both the chambers of Congress and President Donald Trump before the law is enacted. Sadan is expected to vote this week.
AI developers and some MPs have said that federal action is necessary to keep states by creating a patchwork of various rules and regulations in the US that can slow down the development of technology. Georarious AI has increased rapidly since the chat scene in the late 2022, which has inspired companies to fit technology in more and more locations. Economic implications are important, because the race of America and China is to see which country will predict technology, but generative AI infuses privacy, transparency and other risks for consumers that MPs have demanded nature.
During the April hearing of data company Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandra Wang told MPs, “We as an industry and as a country, a clear federal standard, whatever can be.” “But we need one, we need clarity as a federal standard and is predetermined to prevent this result where you have 50 different standards.”
Efforts to limit the capacity of states to regulate artificial intelligence can mean low consumer protection around a technique that is rapidly leaking in every aspect of American life. Anjana Susarla, a professor at Michigan State University, said, “There have been many discussions at the state level, and I think it is important for us to bring this problem to many levels.” “We can contact it at the national level. We can also contact it at the state level. I think we need both.”
Many states have already started regulating AI
The proposed language will prevent states from implementing any regulation, which already includes books. Exceptions are rules and laws that make things easier for AI development and who apply the same standards as non-AI models and systems that do similar things. These types of rules are already starting to pop up. The biggest focus is not in the US, but in Europe, where the European Union has already implemented standard for AI. But state has started coming into action.
Colorado passed a set of consumer security last year, which is ready to be implemented in 2026. California adopted more than a dozen AI -related laws last year. Other states have laws and rules that often deal with specific issues such as deepfec or AI developers need to publish information about their training data. Local level, some rules also address potential employment discrimination if the AI system is used to hiring.
Arsen Coriaan, partner of Law firm Mayor Brown, said, “When the state wants to regulate in AI, all are on maps.” According to the National Assembly of National Assembly, in 2025 so far, state MPs have made at least 550 proposals around AI. Last month, at the House Committee hearing, a Republican Rape in California. Obernolte indicated a desire to overtake more state-level regulation. He said, “We have a limited amount of legislative runway that may be able to solve the problem before the states move forward,” he said.
While some states have laws on books, not all of them have gone into influence or have noticed any enforcement. This limits the potential short-term effects of a superstition, Cobun Zweel-Kigan said, Managing Director for International Association of Privacy Professionals in Washington. “There is really no enforcement yet.”
A adjournment would prevent state legislators and policy makers from developing and proposing new rules, Zweifel-Keeegan. “The federal government would become primary and potentially the only regulator around the AI system,” he said.
What is the meaning of a stay on state AI regulation
AI developers have asked to be constantly and streamlined for any railing on their work. During the hearing of a Senate Commerce Committee last week, CEO of OpenIAI Sam Altman told Sen from a Republican Sen Ted Cruise in Texas that a European Union-style regulatory system for the European Union would be “destructive”. Ultman instead suggested that the industry develops its own standards.
When asked by Sen Brian Shutz, a democrats of air, if the industry self-regulations are sufficient at this time, said that he felt that some railings would be good, but “It is easy to go too far. As I have learned more about how the world works, I am more afraid that it may go far and really may have bad consequences.” (Disclosure: CNET's original company, Ziff Davis, in April, filed a case against Openai, alleging that it violates Ziff Davis Copyright training and operates its AI system.)
Concerns from companies – both developers who create AI systems and “deployment”, using them in interactions with consumers – often stem from fears that the states will make important tasks mandatory such as an impact assessment or transparency notice before the release of a product, the corinian said. Consumer advocates have stated that more rules require, and obstructing the capacity of the states can cause damage to users' privacy and security.
“AI is being widely used to make decisions about life without transparency, accountability or recurrence – it is also facilitating cold fraud, copying and monitoring,” AI and Privacy Director Ben Winters said in a statement. “There will be more discrimination, more deception and less control than 10 years of stagnation-In words, it is siding with technical companies on those that they affect.”
As a result of a adjournment on specific state rules and laws, more consumer protection issues can be dealt with in court or by the Attorney General of the state, Kurinian said. The existing laws around inappropriate and misleading practices that are not specific to AI will still be applicable. “Time will tell how the judge will explain those issues,” he said.
Susarla said AI's prevalence in industries means that state can be able to regulate issues such as privacy and transparency without focusing on technology. But a adjournment on AI regulation can be tied in cases. There should be some kind of balance between “this' we do not want to stop innovation, but on the other hand, we also need to identify that real results can be,” he said.
A lot of policy around the rule of the AI system is caused by the rules and laws of those so-called technology-unknown, Zvefel-Kigan said. He said, “It is also worth remembering that there are many current laws and the ability to make new laws that do not trigger the adjournment, but as long as they apply to other systems, they apply to the AI system,” he said.
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House Democrats has said that the proposed stagnation on the rules will obstruct the capacity of the states for the safety of consumers. Rape. Jan Shakovsky on Wednesday called the move “careless” in a committee hearing on AI regulation. “Our job is yet to protect consumers,” said Illinois Democrat.
Meanwhile, Republican said that the rules of the state can have a lot of burden on innovation in artificial intelligence. Pennsylvania Republican, Rape John Joyce said in a single hearing that the Congress should create a national regulatory structure instead of leaving the states. “We need a federal approach that ensures that consumers are preserved when the AI device is misused, and in a way that allows innovators to flourish.”
At the state level, a letter signed by the 40 State Attorney General of both sides – called the Congress to reject the regulation and instead created that comprehensive regulatory system. He wrote, “This bill does not propose to implement any regulatory plan or to change or supplement the laws implemented by the current states, leaving Americans completely unprotected with the potential loss of AI,” he wrote.