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Josh Kaul Opposes Ban on States Regulating AI
Wisconsin’s attorney general is one of dozens of A-Gs across the state asking Congress not to stop states from regulating AI.
Attorney General Josh Kaul on Friday joined a coalition of 40 states asking that Congress drop a 10-year ban on state-based AI regulations from the ‘big beautiful’ reconciliation bill.
“States shouldn’t be barred from acting to stop harms associated with the use of AI,” Kaul said in a statement.
The state-based regulation ban is included in the sweeping proposal from the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The ban on state-based regulations, supporters say, is actually part of an effort to help the federal government roll-out its own AI structure.
California Republican Congressman Jay Obernolte said Congress is looking to spend half-a-billion on AI in the reconciliation package.
"It's nonsensical to do that if we're going to allow 1,000 different pending bills in state legislatures across the country to become law," he said last week.
Kaul, and the other A-Gs, said in a letter to Congress that they want their own, varied regulations.
"The impact of such a broad moratorium would be sweeping and wholly destructive of reasonable state efforts to prevent known harms associated with AI. This bill will affect hundreds of existing and pending state laws passed and considered by both Republican and Democratic state legislatures,” the A-gs wrote in their letter. “Some existing laws have been on the books for many years."
Wisconsin has just one law dealing with AI. It requires political campaigns to tell people when they use AI in political commercials. The law also
“We acknowledge the uniquely federal and critical national security issues at play and wholeheartedly agree that our nation must be the AI superpower. This moratorium is the opposite approach, however, neither respectful to states nor responsible public policy,” the A-Gs letter states.
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