{"id":660270,"date":"2026-05-23T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660270\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:27:24","slug":"opinion-illinois-is-less-suited-to-regulate-ai-than-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660270\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Illinois is less suited to regulate AI than Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6G2NPFK2OJFH7H3QNZE3IH43LI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Illinois wants to set a \u201cde facto national standard\u201d for artificial intelligence regulations, and the deep-blue state might do just that if Congress doesn\u2019t have the political will to act itself.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RERAGO2CPFFEVDFVY4TQMXHIO4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Illinois state Senate has fast tracked eight bills to regulate AI and aims to pass them before its session wraps on May 31. Sen. Bill Cunningham, a Democrat from Chicago, said he and his colleagues are motivated by rules already imposed by California and New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois wants to set a \u201cde facto national standard\u201d for artificial intelligence regulations, and the deep-blue state might&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-660270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}