The Energy & Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee's hearing on Nov. 19 about chatbot risks was a chilling reminder of the terrible human cost that comes from regulatory inaction on AI. Yet despite horrific incident after horrific incident , AI companies retain carte blanche to sell products with zero meaningful safety standards or oversight. No other industry is given such freedom to endanger people with total impunity.

So it is ghoulish that House Republican leadership chose the very same day to announce that they want to jam federal preemption, which would ban almost all state-level AI regulation, into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). And president Donald Trump has reportedly gone back and forth on signing an executive order granting the federal g

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