PYMNTS.com June 25, 2025
Senate Majority Leader John Thune reportedly expects a 10-year ban on state artificial intelligence regulations to survive in “some version” in President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill.
As Thune’s fellow Republicans debate a state moratorium, the lawmaker said he believes “there’ll be some version of it in the bill,” Axios reported Wednesday (June 25).
Based on feedback from other lawmakers, “it might change in some way,” he said, per the report.
States have been more proactive than the federal government in instituting AI regulations. However, the GOP doesn’t want it to crimp innovation.
Thune backs the moratorium.
“We want to be the leaders in AI and quantum and all these new technologies,” he said, according to the report. “And...
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