AI doesn’t care if it’s in California or Texas. It just runs.

The piece argues that rapidly proliferating, inconsistent state-level AI regulations create a fragmented, risk-prone environment that burdens smaller organizations, weakens security, and erodes trust, and it calls for a unified federal framework to set consistent expectations for transparency, accountability, and responsible innovation. It emphasizes the importance of internal governance, transparency, and interpretability to strengthen oversight and security across the AI supply chain, asserting that federal alignment would reduce regulatory complexity and foster fair competition.