This Fall, Congress Should Finish the Job on a National AI Framework

America’s artificial intelligence policy debate has moved quickly over the past year, but one fundamental question remains unresolved: will the United States have a national framework for AI, or will national policy increasingly be written state by state? Congress should make answering that question one of its top priorities when it returns this fall. The case for federal leadership has only grown stronger. AI is no longer an emerging technology used by a relatively small group of companies and researchers.

August 13, 2026

Don’t Make Data Centers the Scapegoat for Our AI Anxieties

Some of the concerns from communities about the adverse impact of data centers on their communities are valid and need to be addressed by local leaders. Other concerns about data centers are proxies for larger debates about the role of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as retrospective and prospective battles about the place of technology in our daily lives. Regardless, AI is thankfully here to stay, and data centers are needed to power this empowering technology.

August 7, 2026

Useful Communication Does Not Require Intent

Michael Marinaccio’s recent essay in The Hedgehog Review, “Plato’s Warning Has Been Vindicated,” is a serious and thoughtful contribution to the debate over artificial intelligence. Marinaccio deserves credit for engaging the subject in a sober, philosophically informed way rather than treating AI as either a technological messiah or an existential monster. We need more analysis like this. Artificial intelligence is developing quickly enough, and touching enough parts of human life, that questions about knowledge, memory, language, judgment, and human flourishing deserve much more attention than they usually receive.

June 18, 2026

Why Congress Should Pass a National AI Regulatory Framework

We are sliding into the waning days of the 119th Congress, with only around 30 days left in the legislative calendar for the House of Representatives and about 40 days left for the Senate before the election. This therefore seems as good a time as any to recall why it is that having a national framework for AI regulation is so important. Our Constitution grants Congress the unique right (and, we would argue, sometimes even the responsibility) to regulate interstate commerce.

March 20, 2026

AFTF Applauds the National Policy Framework for AI

Alliance for the Future (AFTF) applauds President Donald J. Trump for his national AI framework announced today. It is a serious effort to protect the public from real harms, not speculative or imaginary ones, while still preserving the conditions that allow American innovation in AI to thrive. We are especially encouraged that the framework provides a positive, forward-looking vision for AI policy, and one that continues to move the conversation away from those who fear the future, and toward practical, pro-innovation policies that support builders, creators, and the public.

March 11, 2026

The Case for Human Centered Acceleration

Artificial intelligence is a product of human creativity and ingenuity. It reflects humanity’s enduring drive to discover, invent, and expand the frontier of knowledge. Like the great technological advances that came before it, AI has the potential to transform the human condition by unlocking new knowledge, expanding opportunity, and accelerating solutions to problems that have long constrained human progress. Throughout history, technological progress has been one of the most powerful forces for improving human life.

March 2, 2026

The Most Pro-Human Position on Artificial Intelligence

In recent months, a number of organizations skeptical of rapid artificial intelligence deployment have begun describing themselves as pro-human. The label is not accidental. It reflects a genuine concern that powerful technologies could erode dignity, displace workers, or weaken human agency. Those concerns deserve to be taken seriously. Questions about how technology shapes culture, work, and self-understanding are not fringe anxieties. They are civilizational ones. But the phrase pro-human invites a deeper examination.

February 20, 2026

Why We Signed the Coalition Letter on Federal AI Preemption

Alliance for the Future recently joined a coalition of organizations calling on Congress to consider a targeted, temporary federal preemption approach for certain state level artificial intelligence laws. The effort was spearheaded by Americans for Prosperity and reflects a shared concern that the current trajectory of AI regulation risks becoming fragmented before a coherent national framework is established. The pace of state legislative activity on AI has accelerated rapidly. While this reflects legitimate interest in responding to new technologies, it has also created the conditions for overlapping and sometimes conflicting rules governing systems that inherently operate across state lines.

November 21, 2025

Congress Should Set One AI Standard Before It Is Too Late

Unfortunately, thousands of state bills regulating artificial intelligence (AI), often contradictory and even impossible to comply with, have been proposed across the country in the last eighteen months. Many have even been enacted. Congress has an immediate opportunity to make sure that the United States can continue its global leadership in AI by passing legislation establishing a national framework to prevent a patchwork of AI laws in the states that will harm our ability to lead on AI.

October 28, 2025

Alliance for the Future Urges OSTP to Clear Barriers to American AI Leadership

On October 23, Alliance for the Future (AFTF) submitted formal comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as part of its Request for Information on regulatory barriers to artificial intelligence (AI) . AI is already reshaping American life, from health care and manufacturing to transportation, energy, and national security. Yet the promise of AI is being slowed by outdated rules and a confusing patchwork of state and federal approaches.