Large Language Models & Frontier Model Safety

The current Republican administration has pursued broad AI deregulation — rescinding Biden's AI oversight executive order, publishing the deregulatory AI Action Plan, and reorienting the renamed AI standards center (CAISI) toward competitiveness over safety testing — and has pushed federal preemption of state AI-safety laws specifically (EO 14365, DOJ suing Colorado). Democratic governors (Hochul in New York, Newsom in California) have been the ones building frontier-safety disclosure regimes at the state level. But this isn't a clean partisan story: the Senate voted 99-1 to strip a federal preemption moratorium from a 2025 reconciliation bill — a nearly unanimous, cross-party rejection of blanket preemption — and a bipartisan discussion draft (Reps. Obernolte, R, and Trahan, D) proposes a narrower, time-limited preemption instead of the administration's sweeping version. The Innovation Party's delta: side with the bipartisan instinct behind the 99-1 vote and the Obernolte-Trahan draft — a federal floor, not a blanket override of state safety innovation — against both the administration's broad preemption push and a patchwork of state laws with no floor at all.