Thompson Coburn partner Matt Hafter authored an article in Bloomberg Law exploring how President Trump’s recent AI Executive Order could benefit both users and providers of artificial intelligence technologies.
“A single national standard on artificial intelligence would benefit both providers and users of AI technologies,” Matt wrote.
He explained that a uniform federal approach could strengthen consumer trust in AI tools, reduce regulatory uncertainty, and support continued innovation and investment from AI developers.
Matt also noted the complications that can arise from a patchwork of state laws affecting AI.
“Because AI permeates virtually every aspect of interstate commerce, there may be ancillary state laws that affect AI, such as the use of AI tools in education, employment, health care, or credit decisions. This raises the possibility that a state may be accused of injecting ideological bias (to use the executive order’s words) into an AI tool,” he wrote. “That possibility should be preempted, according to the executive order—even though the same result without the use of AI technology generally wouldn’t necessarily be preempted by federal law.”
Read the full article here.
