Noel King

It's because they're the only people who can do it right now immediately.

Congress is famously very bad at passing laws.

Right now, there is very little chance that a comprehensive AI bill will be put together soon enough to address the immediate concerns that families, employers, workers, anyone who interacts with a computer will have about artificial intelligence.

California sees this risk on the horizon.

They're like, oh gosh, we need to take care of this right now, especially since we're the hub of the tech industry.

Let's make a law.

Here we go.

Tonight, Governor Newsom signing into law a new AI regulation.

Texas starts seeing social threats that AI poses to their kids.

Texas is able to put that law together, implement it very quickly.

Once you get to Congress, so many different interests are colliding.

Like you'll have Colorado, for instance, who just put this law in place saying that hiring decisions can't rely on AI to commit algorithmic bias.

Then you might have a red state come in going, when you say algorithmic bias, do you mean woke stuff?

And then that fight starts happening in Congress.

And in the meantime, unless there's laws on the state level that address any of these concerns, there will be no laws addressing these concerns.

All right.

So the 50 U.S.

states are trying to make laws that are applicable to them.

And in the meantime.

President Trump comes along, signs an executive order that says what exactly?