Broadband and AI in the Next Congress

Artificial Intelligence is now driving infrastructure investment and public policy. AI’s future will depend not only on breakthroughs in computing, but on the networks, data centers, energy systems, workforce, and institutions that support it.

Beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 1, Broadband Breakfast brings together lawmakers, regulators, industry leaders, and technology innovators at the National Press Club to examine the infrastructure behind intelligence, and the policies that will shape America’s competitiveness in the AI era.

EPIC’s Executive Director and President Alan Butler joins a panel discussion on Federal Preemption vs. State AI Patchworks, with fellow panelists Matt Schruers, President and CEO of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, and Rebecca Kern, Senior Correspondent at The Capitol Forum. Read more about the panel below.

Panel 4: Federal Preemption vs. State AI Patchworks

With Congress slow to pass comprehensive technology laws, states have stepped in. California, Colorado and Illinois have enacted aggressive AI regulations, creating a complex operating environment for interstate telecom networks and platforms. Hence the debate over federal preemption: Should Congress should set a single national framework to reduce compliance burdens?