House Republicans recently tried to include a provision in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act asserting that only the federal government could legislate AI; the effort faced backlash and the language was eventually removed. Given the halting and slow-moving efforts to regulate AI at the federal level, critics of the executive order view it as an attempt to block all meaningful regulation on AI and put little faith in Congress to replace existing state laws with a nationwide standard. Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.”
Author: Jared Perlo
Published at: 2025-12-11 23:33:39
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