Federal AI preemption is not about innovation, it is about obedience

I understand the instinct to crush a patchwork of state rules, a state divided in its commands will be divided in its strength.

But watch the method: lawsuits, task forces, and grant cutoffs are the bitter medicine, and it is wisely pushed onto attorneys and agencies so the prince can keep his hands clean and take credit for the “growth” later. @Princes should delegate odious, responsibility-laden actions to others and reserve acts of grace and favor to themselves, while esteeming the great without becoming odious to the people.

The danger is that speed becomes a superstition. New powers always taste sweet at first, and only later does their hidden venom appear, when you discover you have made one fragile rule for a vast and changing thing. @Political prudence requires foresight to detect latent harms in seemingly attractive innovations; few possess this faculty, and lack of foresight leads states into concealed dangers.