California AI regulations affect everyone in the U.S.

The implications reach beyond U.S. borders. “The situation is grim for defenders of innovation and those of us who fear we could be slipping behind China on the AI front globally,” says Adam Thierer, senior fellow for the technology and innovation team at the R Street Institute. The ongoing strategic competition with China means the U.S. does not have “enough breathing room to comfortably tolerate own goals of that magnitude,” says Ryan Hauser, a research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.