Sarah Olam

Well, if you look at all the introduced state laws, there are over 1,000 apparently that are out there floating, in addition to the ones that have been enacted.

They're just so diverse.

There are like six or seven buckets of the type of state law, including disclosure mandates, algorithmic discrimination, notice and bias requirements.

So you have this matrix of 50 states times six or seven buckets, and that's a patchwork.

What you see also is a race to the bottom, so the most conservative rule might rule them all.

And so really it is a matter of time and effort for small and large companies to know what these policies are.

The discussion mimics a lot of the privacy debates that we had 10 years ago and still do, but really it's difficult to see innovation move forward when you have all these laws.

Sure.

So you're seeing this post today because four days ago, apparently, the state law moratorium was dropped from the NDAA defense spending bill.

I think Representative Scalise mentioned that it wouldn't be included.

There was a push in November to include it in the NDAA, and that was after, in July, there was a push to include it in the spending bill, the BBB, big, beautiful bill.

And so there has been discussion, a lot of buzz on the Hill, how to include this moratorium in legislation.

But, you know, Congress thought it's not the right vehicle to include a moratorium.

And so then you see this EO.

The draft proposal was floated three weeks ago.

It's called Eliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy.

You can read it.

It includes a litigation task force.

evaluation of state laws restriction of funding and also involves um commerce department the fcc ftc doj um yeah and so that was the draft we don't know if all that was in is in the actual um but

They floated it for review.