Big Tech companies are backing a lobbying campaign to pass a 10-year ban on US states regulating artificial intelligence models, in a controversial move that has split the AI industry and Donald Trump’s Republican party.
Lobbyists acting on behalf of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are urging the Senate to enact a decade-long moratorium on individual states introducing their own efforts to legislate AI, according to people familiar with the moves.
The provision was passed as part of the US House of Representatives’ version of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” budget bill last month. The Senate hopes to unveil its version as soon as this week in the hope of passing the legislation by July 4.