New efforts this week in Washington to effectively ban individual states from governing artificial intelligence have provoked bipartisan backlash.

The push from House Republicans and the White House to assert federal control over AI regulation, which echoes a similar attempt over the summer , has forged new lines of agreement between far-right commentators and progressive activists.

“It’s a coalition of almost everyone against a few extreme tech billionaires who are trying to buy unfettered power,” said New York State Assembly Member Alex Bores, a proponent of states’ ability to govern AI and a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House. “States protecting our citizens is overwhelmingly popular and bipartisan.”

A new poll released Friday night , conducted by YouGov in partnership with

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