"Be It Enacted" - by Dean W. Ball - Hyperdimensional

A Proposal for Federal AI Preemption

"Be It Enacted" A Proposal for Federal AI Preemption Dean W. Ball Oct 02, 2025 52 15 3 Share Subscribe Introduction You have to have a federal rule and regulation. We can’t stop [AI] with politics. We can’t stop it with foolish rules and even stupid rules. At the same time, we want to have rules, but they have to be smart. They have to be brilliant. They have to be more brilliant than even the technology itself. President Donald J. Trump, Remarks at “Winning the AI Race” The risk of state overregulation of AI has been a focus of my writing since almost literally the beginning of Hyperdimension

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