[ExI] ten year ban on state ai regulations?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> So now, there were state-level regulations on AI?  What would those be?
> To have regulations on something, we would need to clearly understand what
> qualifies as AI, ja?  Now the federal government is proposing a ban on
> state-level regulations on AI.  But the fed does not have the authority to
> prevent a state from regulating something, unless there is a specific
> reserved power in the constitution allowing the federal government to do
> that.
>

That particular ban appears to be dead, in part because there were no
federal regulations waiting to replace the state ones.


> So now we are back to states having the theoretical authority to regulate
> something that I can’t even imagine how it would define.
>

This would have been the same issue with federal regulations.

Being unable to imagine it is not much of an issue in this case.  Simply
look up how the states are doing it - those states that have AI
regulations, anyway.  This sort of law is necessarily public information.
It's not that hard to google.  "California ai regulation" would be a good
place to start.  (I'd give a sample, but then you might confuse that sample
for the entirety of how all states are and could regulate AI.  I recommend
searching state by state for all 50 states, to get a comprehensive view of
the AI regs in each state - and to see how many states aren't regulating AI
at all, though a quick check suggests that at least half of them are making
some sort of effort, many with bills passed in the past year or two.)

Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that all the state AI regulations
are good AI regulations.  The question is merely about what they are - as
in, what attempts are being made.
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