Staffers Drafting Federal AI Bill Took Industry-Funded Trip to Visit Tech Giants Pushing to Block State Rules (opens in new tab)

A dozen congressional aides—including staffers for co-chairs of the House Democrats' AI task force and a key AI subcommittee—were flown to Austin for meetings with executives and lobbyists from Google, Nvidia, Dell, Samsung, and other companies lobbying Congress to preempt state AI regulations.