Republicans propose prohibiting US states from regulating AI for 10 years

Last-minute add to budget bill aims to stop laws that would create guardrails for automated decision-making systems

Republicans in US Congress are trying to bar states from being able to introduce or enforce laws that would create guardrails for artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems for 10 years.

A provision in the proposed budgetary bill now before the House of Representatives would prohibit any state or local governing body from pursuing any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems" unless the purpose of the law is to remove legal impediments to, or facilitate the deployment or operation of" these systems.