“This is Mad Max for the AI industry,” says ARI President Brad Carson
On Friday, the Trump Administration proposed a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, including the preemption of state laws and a federal sandbox to exempt AI companies from federal regulations. In addition to shielding AI companies from liability under state and federal law, the proposal urges that existing child privacy protections and generally applicable laws be applied to AI and recommends tools for allowing parental monitoring of AI use by minors without applying additional liability to tech companies.
“This is Mad Max for the AI industry,” said ARI President Brad Carson. “After witnessing the harmful impact of the tech industry’s move-fast-break-things mantra during the rise of social media platforms, the public wants safeguards now. This framework offers the opposite: another chance for tech companies to launch harmful products with no accountability. What’s most disturbing is that the framework recommends both banning state laws on AI and urges Congress not to create new “open-ended” liability for the AI industry when it comes to child harms. For the AI industry, that means open season on the American public.”
Today’s national policy framework follows multiple attempts to pass a ban on state AI laws, first in the Big Beautiful Bill, and then again in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act. The Administration has also worked to quash new AI laws protecting kids online in states including Utah and Florida, igniting pushback from Republican state lawmakers.
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