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The article centers on the legislative strategy surrounding federal preemption for artificial intelligence regulation, specifically examining how Big Tech lobbyists are attempting to bundle AI rules with unrelated children's online safety laws (KOSA) to secure passage after facing political headwinds. While child safety is mentioned as a vehicle, the core subject matter remains the mechanics of national AI governance and the shifting dynamics between federal agencies, Congress, and industry stakeholders in Washington.

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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

The VergeJune 15, 20266 min read

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) arrive for a news conference with bipartisan senators on passage of the Online Privacy Protection Act at the Capitol on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images. For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them. But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggage, related to an ent … Read the full story at The Verge.

For months, Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them. But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggage, related to an entirely different fight in Congress that predates…

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