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White House Unveils National AI Policy Framework To Limit State Power 78

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Friday issued (PDF) a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence, aiming to create uniform safety and security guardrails around the nascent technology while preempting states from enacting their own AI rules. The six-pronged outline broadly proposes a slew of regulations on AI products and infrastructure, ranging from implementing new child-safety rules to standardizing the permitting and energy use of AI data centers. It also calls on Congress to address thorny issues surrounding intellectual-property rights and craft rules "preventing AI systems from being used to silence or censor lawful political expression or dissent."

The administration said in an official release that it wants to work with Congress "in the coming months" to convert its framework into a bill that President Donald Trump can sign. The White House wants to codify the framework into law "this year" and believes it can generate bipartisan support, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday evening. That won't be easy in a deeply divided Congress where Republicans hold thin and often fractious majorities, and where Trump has already urged GOP lawmakers to prioritize his controversial voter-ID bill above all else ahead of the November midterms.
BCLP has an interactive map that tracks the proposed, failed and enacted AI regulatory bills from each state.
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White House Unveils National AI Policy Framework To Limit State Power

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  • by Anonymous Coward

    A.K.A. the trump scumbag pedo party of constant war for fake causes.

    Hehehe.

    • by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:29AM (#66052668)

      TL;DR

      An AI lobby group paid (bought Trumpcoin) in order for Trump to sign a worthless guidance framework that presses all the trigger buttons: Child protection, copyright protection, free speech and censorship protection, and american worker dominance. He alludes that he will promote this to congress (as soon as the next payment clears).

      The only thing Trump understands about AI is that it makes great videos of him in fighter jets shit bombing journalists.

    • Re: (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Congress shall make no laws, yada yada yada. Unless they feel like it, or America has turned into a dictatorship.
      • It's funny as fuck when you argue with yourself... what side wins?

        • by Anonymous Coward
          Your Russian side. So China I guess?
          Who knew education and voting had consequences?
        • by shanen ( 462549 )

          Both sides of your self-contradiction can lose by being false. It is only forbidden that both sides be true. But when you find the self-contradiction you've already spotted the liar without checking anything.

          Time to review my ontology of lies? The first three levels actually started with Heinlein, but the YOB forced me to rethink and expand the scale.

          Level 1: Counterfactual. Any fool can check the facts.

          Level 2: Partial truth. Where normal lawyers and politicians usually work, but it can require a lot of ef

  • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:55PM (#66052602)
    The thing I don't get about Republican voters, the politically aware of ones not the ones who are just clueless and trying to make it through one more day, the thing I don't get about them is they know that the party they support lies constantly about every single principle day claim to have. I mean Christ Donald Trump literally said out loud that he's going to hell...

    And I get all politicians lie and blah blah blah but if they're going to sit there and lie to you about fundamental principles what makes you think that they're going to not fuck you over? What makes you think you're part of the club?
    • by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

      The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

      The lesser of two evils.

      Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

      I think the actual Christian bible has a few things to say about those though. Like:

      "Abstain from all evil"

      "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil..."

      and "And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just."

      • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:22AM (#66052626)
        They fucking love Trump and they fucking love the Republican party. It's not like how the progressives or the left wing will hold their nose to vote for centrists as a lesser of two evils. Every single right winger I have ever known firmly believed that Trump was their man and was going to take care of them.

        It's such a common phenomenon that there's a entire meme about it called leopards eating faces that comes from a old Twitter post about a woman sobbing because she never thought the leopards would eat her face after voting for The leopards eating faces party...
        • Yeah... and memes (or is it meme's) don't do anything to back your argument up, at all.
          Does it apply to the Democrats, also?

          We are able to vote for whoever the f**k we want... and, still, we can like some policy or whatever that the other person ran their campaign on.
          Even after the fact.

          So... is it strictly limited to only Trump that sets you off, or is it when someone speaks out in some way that isn't your specific way of thinking?

    • by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:47AM (#66052650)

      Ya, but letting the states regulate this within their borders would interfere with Trump and his donors getting even richer, probably at our expense.

    • Re: (Score:1, Funny)

      by ambrandt12 ( 6486220 )

      "The thing I don't get about Republican voters, the politically aware of ones not the ones who are just clueless and trying" = I'll give you a second chance on that one... grammar is a thing, buddy... and it can make the difference between intelligible and nonsense.
      So, ignoring all the responses since you posted your post... you have a free second chance here... okay, everyone?
      You can reformulate your post as you like (I hate the no edit a post thing here, too... so, you have a chance)

      The second sentence...

      • The second sentence... you need a grammar check, there.

        If you insist on being a grammar Nazi, you should at least clean up your own grammar first. The comma in the sentence I quoted is both redundant and awkward.

        I hate the no edit a post thing here, too...

        Really? Anyone with even the most modest pretensions of being a grammarian would blanch at that sentence. I suggest that you put your own house in order before criticizing the grammar of others.

        • Funny how nothing flags that comma as wrong.

          The 'no edit' part was in parentheses, considering it wasn't part of the main post (as in, it was an afterthought).
          I don't have "modest pretentions of being a grammarian" or anything similar, I was pointing out how "The thing I don't get about Republican voters, the politically aware of ones not the ones who are just clueless and trying" doesn't make any kind of sense... 'aware of ones not the ones'... that's a big "Huh?".

          Plus, I love getting rsilvergun and his c

    • A number of them are caught in the mentality (excuse) that everyone else would act the same way if given the opportunity while at the same time taking it for granted, unstated, that public opinion must be dictated to the unthinking masses (who, for the purposes of this rationalisation, definitely don't do more or better work than an executive). Therefore the only possible explanation is that their personal political enemies have fooled the people into hating them, and that's the whole mechanism in play.

      Whet

    • States have no rights in the American system. They have powers, insofar as they exercise them.

      Humans have rights, granted by God, as the default religious basis for the Natural Rights Republic.

      You'll notice that Regulating AI appears nowhere in Article I , and Federalist 10 explains why these powers were strictly limited.

      Yet the Political/Parasite class is happy to abrogate their power for power and money and ensure a government school child never hears about The Federalist Papers in thirteen years of compu

    • LOL, you sound just like a Republican. Politicians of any stripe only wail on about state's rights when they don't control the Federal government. California has been enjoying some state's rights on several issues lately. Texas does the same when the Democrats take over.

      It would be nice if we had more individuality for each state, though we do have that now to a lesser extent then was originally envisioned.

      Regarding AI. A single framework for the whole country would make the most sense. It's a large enough

    • by MTEK ( 2826397 ) on Saturday March 21, 2026 @11:32AM (#66053224)

      As someone who grew-up in a conservative household and listened to conservative talk radio, the point is this: owning the libs. It's ideological sadism-- deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others as a means of upholding or enforcing a specific belief system, ideology, or social structure. That's the whole point of Trump. That's why he keeps "winning". How else would a crude, pathological liar, insurrectionist, and unrepentant felon get re-elected? He makes people like you miserable. Not only that, Trump proves Niccolo Machiavelli was right. 500 years ago he observed an uncomfortable truth about human psychology and power dynamics that organizational psychologists have since confirmed: malignant narcissism, not competence, is often the strongest predictor of who emerges as a leader.

      Personally, I suspect American civilization peaked ~10 years ago. Trump's first term should have been a one and done, but here we are. Democrats may win the upcoming mid-terms and next presidency, but I wouldn't be surprised if the successor of MAGA finds a bigger, more evil idiot. They can't help themselves. It's pathological.

      • Agreed; most of the political game from the conservative side, from having two Trump-voter parents (who praise him when prices are low, and then blame others when it is high) seem focused almost exclusively on taking especial pleasure in getting "libs" to show any emotion and essentially bathing in their tears. I am forced to listen to a lot of what I call AM hate radio (whereas my parents who listen to it feel it is a beacon of truth) when we go on long trips, easily 90% of it is ranting about basically ho
    • by jythie ( 914043 )

      Republican voters don't have a platform, the only have a side. Their principles can be shut on and off according to what will get them the most power over others.

  • by grmoc ( 57943 ) on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:09AM (#66052616)

    Does a DoS attack count as prevention?

    Shannon-Hartley's theory-- Capacity Limit: As noise approaches infinity relative to signal, capacity approaches zero, meaning reliable communication becomes impossible without increasing power.

    So, DoS attacks effectively prevent communication.

    Is AI slop a DoS attack? It sure as heck feels that way...

  • "preventing AI systems from being used to silence or censor lawful political expression or dissent."

    Meaning no interfering with dangerous and antidemocratic expression from the right.

    On the other hand AI providers MUST enable mass surveillance of American citizens and use of AI for autonomous weapons and targeting.

  • Republicans haven't cared about state rights ever since their supreme leader was elected in 2024.
    • States rights was important back before Roe V Wade was overturned. Now it is federal rule all the way, have to forbid the states that allow abortions to continue. And certainly as you say, donnie the diktator wants absolute control, and is doing quite well at getting it. I expect short lived though, well another 9 months. Iran is blowing up and I expect it is a long long long way from over. 5+ buck average gas price in rural areas with big SUV's are going to feel that pain and take their own revenge. donnie
  • by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21, 2026 @02:32AM (#66052712)
    Is it going to be an optional law? Like the one requiring the release of the Epstein files?
  • Good fucking luck getting that over the line after mid-term elections.

    Good fucking luck getting anything over the line after mid-term elections.

  • States' rights are only for slavery

  • The TLDR of the policy framework is don't regulate AI and states should not be able to either.

    The one thing from Europe's AI scheme I really liked was the ban on judgement of humans by unaccountable unexplainable bags of weights otherwise I generally also oppose regulation. Any attempt to do so will be hopelessly captured to hoard technology and advance corporate interests.

    In a future where AI actually is broadly competitive with human labor rather than just cosplay it won't be the tech companies shoveling

  • Make life harder for whoever will come after you

  • Although the Administration believes that training of AI models on copyrighted
    material does not violate copyright laws, it acknowledges arguments to the contrary
    exist and therefore supports allowing the Courts to resolve this issue. Similarly,
    Congress should not take any actions that would impact the judiciary’s resolution of
    whether training on copyrighted material constitutes fair use.

    My argument. If it's ok to use copyrighted material without compensation to train an AI model. I am an AI model and t

    • One could take a slightly different view. Training is teaching. And I don't know about today, but back in the day of books, they were expensive. My college book costs were hundreds per semester. There was no fair use. There was buy the book for class. Even high school grade school books cost and either parents or the school district pays. Knowledge costs money, even digital books cost money. So slurping every book ever known to humanity for teaching should cost money, and if my college text books are any sa
  • Fuck you this is unconstitutional.
  • Of course the party in power can always vote to eliminate the filibuster provided enough money changes hands or senate leadership is voted out and replaced with someone who will gut the filibuster.

  • 1. Computers are not responsible.

    Thus AI or any other decisioning system run by a computer should not be making suggestions, giving guidance, or worse taking action in a manner on their own. In all scenarios it should have to be associated with a responsible party (human or company) and that entity is merely using the output of the computer for guidance, as with any other advice, and the decision followed by consequences thereafter is in the hands of that entity — this really doesn't need to be spelle

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