{"id":32920,"date":"2025-07-01T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32920"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:06:38","slug":"us-senate-rejects-plan-to-stop-states-regulating-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32920","title":{"rendered":"US Senate rejects plan to stop states regulating AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=77d2de10-b31b-4543-acdf-ff92f9993455&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US Senate has voted down a proposed 10-year ban on states regulating artificial intelligence models, ending a controversial plan supported by Big Tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>Senators voted by a margin of 99 to one in favour of an amendment to remove the wording from Donald Trump\u2019s flagship tax and spending legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The vote in the early hours of Tuesday morning came as part of a wider marathon voting session in the Senate over the US president\u2019s \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents, including Big Tech companies, argued that the provision to restrict AI regulation was necessary to prevent a raft of inconsistent regional rules that could stifle innovation and lead the US to lose ground to China.<\/p>\n<p>But it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/52ae52f1-531e-462f-898f-e9f86b3b1869\" data-trackable=\"link\">caused divisions<\/a> within the Republican party. <\/p>\n<p>Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick had said on Monday that he supported a five-year curb on state regulation of AI as a compromise, saying in a message on social media site X that the US \u201cmust prioritise investment and innovation\u201d if it was \u201cserious about winning the AI race\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed moratorium had, however, been criticised by some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/stream\/18579e91-20a8-4654-baff-5d8c7dd01eac\" data-trackable=\"link\">Republican<\/a> politicians, who raised concerns about banning states from overseeing a powerful technology with the potential to cause social and economic upheaval.<\/p>\n<p>AI safety campaigners also warned that relying on self-regulation could have disastrous societal consequences as Silicon Valley competes to release ever more powerful models.<\/p>\n<p>The provision had been included in the tax and spending bill as part of the US House of Representatives\u2019 version of the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/77d2de10-b31b-4543-acdf-ff92f9993455\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}