"Proponents of AI preemption equate competitiveness with deregulation, arguing that state-level guardrails hamper innovation and weaken the United States in its technological competition with China. The reality is the opposite. Today's most serious national-security vulnerabilities involving AI stem not from too much oversight, but from the absence of it. AI systems already underpin essential functions across our economy and national-security apparatus, including airport routing, energy-grid forecasting, fraud-detection systems, real-time battlefield data integration, and an expanding range of defense-industrial-base operations."
"Adversaries know that when crucial infrastructure depends on opaque, unregulated algorithms, a single manipulated output can shut down power in an entire region, destabilize financial markets, or degrade military readiness in ways that are extremely difficult to detect in real time. The Pentagon has repeatedly warned that state-of-the-art models remain acutely vulnerable to manipulation through tactics such as data poisoning, when hostile actors corrupt the information used to train a system,"
President Trump announced an intention to sign an executive order prohibiting states from regulating AI and previously sought to insert preemption language into the National Defense Authorization Act. Proponents of federal preemption argue that state-level guardrails hinder innovation and harm U.S. competitiveness with China. Major national-security vulnerabilities in AI arise from inadequate oversight rather than excessive regulation. AI systems already underpin essential economic and defense functions, including airport routing, energy-grid forecasting, fraud detection, battlefield data integration, and defense-industrial operations. These concentrated failure points are attractive targets because adversaries can manipulate opaque algorithms through data poisoning and adversarial prompting.
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