Unpacking the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026
Tech Policy Press
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A close read of the Obernolte-Trahan discussion draft, which would regulate frontier model developers federally while leaving deployment and use to the states.
Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service.In the United States, polling shows a broad bipartisan appetite for AI regulation. An Annenberg Public Policy Center survey conducted earlier this year found 65% of Americans say the government has done too little to regulate AI, including 77% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans.On June 4, Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) released a 269-page bipartisan discussion draft of a bill called the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026. On the same date, they published an opinion in Bloomberg Law, explicitly calling for feedback on the draft. “This discussion draft isn’t a final product,” they write. “It’s the start of a serious national conversation with workers, researchers, startups,…
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