It doesn’t seem like the current administration cares about legality or anything, but I’m guessing that the Commerce Clause broadly empowers the US Congress (i.e; the US “Parliament”) to regulate at the federal level anything that ‘impacts’ inter-state commerce in any way. But apparently this AI provision runs afoul of the “Byrd rule” in this specific instance, because regulating AI is not part of the budget reconciliation process and therefore cannot be a part of a budget bill.
I’m guessing that the legalese doesn’t really matter, this is just a banally routine way to provoke political theater so that Republicans can claim that Democrats are holding up the budget bill and paralyzing the country and/or distract from the controversy on Medicaid healthcare budget cuts.
There’s nothing special going on here— higher levels of government prevail if laws at two different levels conflict. The federal government has the right to regulate AI in a way that preempts state level governance: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/preemption
We are asking people to tell their Senators not to allow this provision to pass because it means choking out the best hope for AI regulation given Congress’s lack of interest/heavy AI industry lobbying. It’s not offering any federal level regulation— just making it so the states can’t implement any of their own.
It doesn’t seem like the current administration cares about legality or anything, but I’m guessing that the Commerce Clause broadly empowers the US Congress (i.e; the US “Parliament”) to regulate at the federal level anything that ‘impacts’ inter-state commerce in any way. But apparently this AI provision runs afoul of the “Byrd rule” in this specific instance, because regulating AI is not part of the budget reconciliation process and therefore cannot be a part of a budget bill.
I’m guessing that the legalese doesn’t really matter, this is just a banally routine way to provoke political theater so that Republicans can claim that Democrats are holding up the budget bill and paralyzing the country and/or distract from the controversy on Medicaid healthcare budget cuts.
There’s nothing special going on here— higher levels of government prevail if laws at two different levels conflict. The federal government has the right to regulate AI in a way that preempts state level governance: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/preemption
We are asking people to tell their Senators not to allow this provision to pass because it means choking out the best hope for AI regulation given Congress’s lack of interest/heavy AI industry lobbying. It’s not offering any federal level regulation— just making it so the states can’t implement any of their own.