Hundreds of state legislators are calling on Congress not to include a proposed provision in the annual defense bill that would nullify state-level regulations on artificial intelligence.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Punchbowl News earlier this month that House Republicans were looking to include language that would ban the enforcement of state AI laws in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026.
A bipartisan group of more than 200 state lawmakers wrote in an open letter to the House and Senate that this year’s defense bill includes “a blanket prohibition on state and local AI and automated decision-system regulation.”
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