House Speaker Johnson says there's "potentially" a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives
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A House Speaker openly entertaining AI guardrails while at odds with the President signals that AI policy is fragmenting inside the US government, not just between parties. Policy and GR teams should prepare for parallel power centers — White House, House, agencies — each with its own ask from AI vendors and large deployers.
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