MIT Technology Review July 9, 2025
A diverse group of politicians came together to beat back a 10-year moratorium on state and local governments’ right to regulate AI. Here’s why that matters.
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 was chock full of controversial policies—Medicaid work requirements, increased funding for ICE, and an end to tax credits for clean energy and vehicles, to name just a few. But one highly contested provision was missing. Just days earlier, during a late-night voting session, the Senate had killed the bill’s 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation.
“We really dodged a bullet,” says Scott Wiener, a California state senator and the author of SB 1047, a bill that would have made...
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