TRUMP AMERICA AI Act (Mar 2026)
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A 291-page draft bill would wipe out over 1,500 state AI laws at once and gut the core legal shield protecting online platforms -- though it's unlikely to actually pass.
Who they are
The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a discussion-draft bill released March 2026 by Senator Marsha Blackburn.
What they do
It's a proposed law -- not yet passed -- meant to lock in a Trump order making federal rules override state AI regulation.
How it works
As drafted, coordinated with White House AI/crypto official David Sacks, it would override 1,561 state AI bills across 45 states, fully repeal Section 230 (the shield protecting platforms from liability for user content), impose a duty-of-care standard with FTC enforcement, require federal audits of frontier AI models, and exclude copyrighted training data from fair use -- but as of May 2026 it's not enacted and widely seen as unlikely to advance.
Why it matters
The engine tracks it as a draft blueprint to watch, deliberately NOT treating it as active law, since it's still just proposed legislative language.
The engine's record — word for word
TRUMP AMERICA AI Act — Senator Marsha Blackburn's 291-page DISCUSSION DRAFT (released March 18 2026, building on her December 2025 proposal; backronym for 'The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry Act'). STATUS: NOT ENACTED as of May 2026 — drafted in coordination with White House AI/Crypto czar David Sacks to codify Trump's Dec 11 2025 AI-preemption EO; widely assessed as unlikely to advance in the Senate as drafted. Organized around the four 'Cs' (children, creators, conservatives, communities); incorporates the Kids Online Safety Act + NO FAKES Act + others. As proposed it would: federally preempt 1,561 state AI bills across 45 states; completely repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (eliminating the platform civil-liability shield for third-party content — sweeping ramifications beyond AI), forcing platform AI-on-AI filtering loops; establish a mandatory duty-of-care standard with FTC rulemaking authority; require DOE deployment evaluations + frontier-model annual third-party audits (DOE Advanced AI Evaluation Program); and exclude copyright training data from fair use. Engine treatment: pre-enactment legislative-architecture artifact tracked for enactment-trajectory, NOT current operative law — per Layer-Promotion Discipline (Apr 24 2026) pre-enactment legislation is descriptive vocabulary, not a Layer-1 promotion candidate. Report #63 thesis: functions as a compliance moat — Section 230 sunset + bias audits + copyright exclusion = activation-energy threshold that kills startups while entrenching PCAST monopolies, which quietly welcome the high-compliance environment because it guarantees extermination of competition. The third-party audit requirement replicates MBS-era ratings-agency capture. The Technate formalizing its governance rail through whichever political vehicle holds power.
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