Overview
- President Trump said he will sign an executive order this week to keep AI regulation at the federal level and avoid separate state approval regimes.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans argue an executive order cannot preempt state legislation, as DeSantis pushes his own state AI Bill of Rights.
- State activity continues to surge, with more than 1,000 AI-related bills introduced and new measures such as Colorado’s law targeting algorithmic discrimination.
- White House AI adviser David Sachs frames AI development as interstate commerce, saying a national standard would spare startups a patchwork of 50 rule sets.
- Previous attempts to write state preemption into federal legislation were stripped from major bills after bipartisan criticism, and the order’s full details remain unspecified.