The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 99-1 to remove a proposed decade-long ban on state-level AI regulations from Donald Trump‘s sweeping tax cut and spending bill.
Initially pitched as a 10-year moratorium, the AI provision was later tied to federal subsidies, offering broadband and infrastructure funds only to states that refrained from regulating AI. A last-minute GOP effort sought to trim the moratorium to five years and allow narrow exceptions, but the plan collapsed after Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced an amendment late Monday to strike the proposal entirely. The vote occurred just after 4 a.m. Tuesday.
Backers of the moratorium, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), argued that fragmented state laws undermine innovation and weaken U.S. competition with China. Some tech leaders endorsed the ban.
However, governors from both parties, led by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, opposed the move, calling it a gift to tech companies. Families affected by online harms also urged senators to reject the measure.
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