AI Regulation Fight Moves From Congress to the States

The institutional move is to convert federal delay into a state-level ceiling. Once preemption enters the debate, the fight shifts from drafting AI safeguards to deciding which government is allowed to act first. The public complaint that citizens are absent ^[1] matters because preemption would make that absence durable: Congress keeps the pen, states lose theirs, and affected communities inherit the risk before any national rule takes force.