US votes not to block AI regulation. But what does it mean?
You know how strongly I believe in regulating AI, to protect people from corporations that do whatever they want with our data and our minds, often without ethics and without respecting our personal values.
The US Senate just stopped a dangerous attempt: a ten-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation. Ten years in which no US state would have been allowed to pass laws, apply oversight, or take action. Everything frozen. But the vote went the other way.
The proposal was part of the AI Policy Act. The official reason? Avoiding a patchwork of local rules and giving companies legal certainty. But the real effect would’ve been to leave AI completely unregulated, at a time when the risks are real. In schools, workplaces, hospitals, and government offices, AI is already there, making decisions, shaping outcomes, creating consequences, without clear rules.
That’s why many US states have started acting. California is trying to stop the use of AI in unjustified layoffs. Colorado is demanding transparency in automated systems used by public institutions. Massachusetts wants protections for those affected by opaque, unaccountable models. Freezing them for a decade would’ve been a serious mistake. Thankfully, that didn’t happen.
This bipartisan vote shows a growing awareness: innovation without oversight is not progress, and every level of government must have the right to act, to regulate, to protect. No AI race can justify the absence of rules. Technology cannot outrun democracy.
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