THREE PROMINENT GOP GOVERNORS — Arkansas’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Utah’s Spencer Cox, and Florida’s Ron DeSantis — criticized a prospective White House executive order to preempt state-level AI regulations.
- The administration’s effort calls on lawmakers to include language in a must-pass defense package that would limit states from regulating AI. President Donald Trump also called on Congress to act, and his administration has drafted an executive order that seeks to challenge states over AI regulations by opening them up to lawsuits and withholding some of their federal funding.
- DeSantis called the effort a “subsidy to Big Tech” and said states ...