Moratorium on state ia laws to adopt, with some exemptions

If there is one thing the AI ​​industry needs, it is More regulations. However, soon the American states for the United States may not have much to say in what AI companies can and cannot do thanks to Trump Pleating Senators. This is true, an amendment adapted to AI for the president’s tax legislation is on the way to approval – despite the concerns that his The shoe farm is illegal. The clause would prevent states from legislating on the AI ​​industry for five years, Bloomberg reports. Only the indications that cooperation will be authorized to access some of the $ 500 million in funding for AI infrastructure and others included included in the bill.

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) paved the way for this, accepting an agreement on Sunday with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) who exempt the law on voice security and the image of his original state (Elvis). Signed in early 2024, the Elvis Act is intended to protect musicians to allow the AI ​​to use their resemblance and their voice without authorization.

As part of the New Deal, Cruz has reduced the ban from ten to five years – because five years of an unregulated AI industry will certainly cause no damage. A draft of the amendment, obtained by Politico,, Also includes exemptions for “a law or regulation concerning unfair or misleading acts or practices, children’s online security, children’s sexual abuse, advertising rights, protection of the name, image, voice or resemblance necessary and any documentation necessary for the” “application as long as they do not place an” undue or unpleasant charge “on AI systems. the decade, Past the house in May.

While Blackburn’s decision will probably move it forward, republican governors across the country have also expressed their disdain for the amendment. Friday, 17 governors sent a letter Ask for withdrawal (after having sucked the rest of the tax bill, of course). They said it “threatens to undo all the work that states have done to protect our citizens from the abusive use of artificial intelligence”.

Correction, June 30, 2025, 8 h 51 HE: The title has been modified to reflect that the provision proposes a qualified break rather than a pure and simple prohibition of the legislation on AI at the level of the State.