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A 2025 U.S.-focused policy brief from the Bipartisan Policy Center, relevant for understanding the domestic regulatory landscape and federal-state tensions shaping AI governance frameworks.
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The Bipartisan Policy Center outlines eight policy lessons for navigating U.S. AI governance, focusing on the federal-state preemption debate. It argues that federal preemption of state AI laws will only succeed if paired with clear national standards, warning against 'preempt first, legislate later' approaches that leave regulatory vacuums.
Key Points
- •Preemption debates hinge on federal standards: stripping state authority without a replacement framework drew near-unanimous Senate opposition.
- •Broad preemption without a federal framework (e.g., 10-year moratoriums) faces bipartisan pushback; paired guidance on privacy and risk is needed.
- •Any AI moratorium legislation must clearly define scope, duration, and carveouts to avoid ambiguity and legal challenges.
- •The U.S. currently has a fragmented patchwork of state AI laws—hundreds enacted in one year alone—seen as threatening national competitiveness.
- •BPC recommends pairing limited preemption with clear standards on privacy, impact assessments, transparency, and enforcement mechanisms.
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The future of American AI governance is at a crossroads as states and the federal government wrestle over who should regulate AI and the appropriate scope of such regulation. Currently, most AI regulation in the United States occurs in the states, with thousands of AI laws introduced in state legislatures and hundreds enacted this year alone. This has created a patchwork of laws and regulations that many see as harmful to the country’s national competitiveness and ability to remain on the technological frontier.
After a failed attempt at a federal moratorium on state AI lawmaking earlier this year, policymakers in Congress have sought to mitigate or fully preempt the state law patchwork and give themselves more time—and pressure—to develop a national framework. Some members of Congress have proposed regulatory flexibility for companies caught in the state patchwork. The White House outlined federal priorities in its AI Action Plan, and a draft executi
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