"On Wednesday, a rumor began popping up in Washington about a momentous policy change: the White House, it was said, would issue an executive order on Friday that would finally preempt state AI laws, handing over those regulatory powers to the federal government. The minute it leaked online, lawyers and policymakers began to scour every sentence of it. There was a lot about it that seemed politically unfeasible; there was even more that seemed overbroad, possibly illegal."
"But crucially, they noticed how much power would have been handed to a certain South African tech-billionaire-turned-special-government-employee who'd tunneled his way into the West Wing - not Elon Musk, but the other one. In every section of the draft order, President Donald Trump was directing his cabinet secretaries and agency heads to imminently issue reports and guidance on how to punish states with AI laws, within the next 90 days."
A leaked executive-order draft would preempt state AI laws and transfer regulatory authority to the federal government. Lawyers and policymakers closely reviewed the draft and found many provisions politically unfeasible and potentially illegal. Several federal agencies appeared sidelined by the proposed structure. The draft would concentrate substantial power in a South African tech billionaire who became a special government employee with West Wing access. The order directed cabinet secretaries and agency heads to produce reports and guidance within 90 days on ways to punish states that enact their own AI laws.
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