The Wild West of AI

The budget reconciliation bill stripped out the moratorium on regulating artificial intelligence. But this isn’t the end of the debate. It’s just the beginning.

In the morning hours of July 1, the U.S. Senate voted 99-1 to strip a 10-year moratorium on state and local regulation of artificial intelligence from the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” which kept it out of the final version signed by President Trump. It’s tempting to read the withdrawal of this provision as something to be celebrated — and in very nar…