Federal preemption of state AI law is the framework's most consequential output — and the one that arrives fully formed while enforcement mechanisms remain vague. The White House document establishes federal primacy before Congress has passed a single AI statute, effectively using the executive framework to constrain legislative options. States that had begun building their own AI liability and disclosure regimes — California's activity being the most developed — now face a federal ceiling constructed without their input. The labs that lobbied hardest against SB 1047 got the federal preemption…