White House considers order to preempt state AI laws

Alternatively, nonprofit think tank R Street Institute said that federal pressure could wrangle contradictory state laws into a more unified landscape. 

“The Trump administration is clearly fully engaged now on the problems associated with a costly, confusing 50-state crazy-quilt of AI regulations,” Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at R Street, told Nextgov/FCW. “In the end, however, Congress will need to step up and act because Executive Branch authority to address this problem can only be stretched so far, and Executive Orders only last as long as administrations do