PYMNTS.com May 21, 2025
More than 140 organizations are asking U.S. House leaders to reject a proposed 10-year freeze on state-level regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), saying it would remove corporate accountability for any harms arising from the technology.
According to The Hill, the group sent a letter this week to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and other members of Congress criticizing a provision tucked into the House’s tax and spending bill.
“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public,”...







