Forbes July 1, 2025
While President Donald Trump’s sweeping economic bill cleared the Senate on Tuesday, a 10-year federal ban that would have stopped states from passing their own laws on artificial intelligence is dead. The pro-Big Tech provision was tucked inside the policy bill that Trump has been driving for weeks. Now the AI legislative ban is gone.
The Senate voted 99-1 Tuesday morning to kill the moratorium after a last-minute uproar from advocacy groups, lawmakers and tens of thousands of Americans who saw it as a dangerous overreach. They didn’t stay quiet. The Senate listened.
States Keep The Right To Legislate AI
The removed provision would have blocked any state-level regulation of AI systems for the next decade. It offered no federal...
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