【Host】Here's what just happened: Trump signed an executive order that could wipe out over 100 state AI laws designed to protect you from deepfakes, biased algorithms, and unsafe AI systems. The tech industry is celebrating, but I've dug deep into this order, and what I found should alarm every American who cares about their safety and privacy. Let me be direct with you - this isn't just about regulatory policy. This is about whether Silicon Valley gets to write its own rules while you lose the protections your state fought to give you. Here's the reality: While Congress has completely failed to pass any meaningful AI regulation, your state governments stepped up. Over 100 laws were passed in 2025 alone - laws that require companies to test their AI for bias before using it to decide if you get hired or approved for a loan. Laws that ban deepfake pornography and protect children from harmful AI chatbots. California's frontier AI safety law requires the biggest AI companies to prove their systems won't cause mass harm. Trump's executive order targets all of these protections. Now, you might ask - can a president really override state laws with the stroke of a pen? The answer is no, not directly. But here's the clever part: the order weaponizes federal agencies to challenge these laws in court, threatens to cut billions in broadband funding to non-compliant states, and instructs the FTC to treat state AI requirements as "deceptive practices." I've analyzed the lobbying records, and the numbers are staggering. Tech companies spent over $1.1 billion pushing for this outcome. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia - they all argued that dealing with 50 different state laws creates a "compliance nightmare" that helps China win the AI race. But here's what they're not telling you: there's zero evidence that state AI laws are actually slowing innovation. What they are doing is forcing companies to be transparent about how their algorithms make decisions that affect your life. They're requiring safety testing before AI systems are deployed. They're protecting your children from AI-generated abuse. And now those protections could vanish. You're probably thinking this sounds like typical Washington politics. But this is different because there's no federal backup plan. Congress has repeatedly failed to pass AI legislation. If the state laws disappear, you're left with nothing - no protection from algorithmic discrimination, no recourse when deepfakes destroy someone's reputation, no safety requirements for the most powerful AI systems ever created. I know the tech industry's argument sounds reasonable - we need uniform national standards to compete with China. But preempting state laws while offering no federal replacement isn't creating standards, it's creating a vacuum that benefits only the biggest tech companies. The legal experts I've consulted believe this executive order will face serious constitutional challenges. Executive orders can't actually preempt state laws - only Congress can do that. But even if the courts eventually strike it down, that could take years, during which your protections remain in limbo. Some might ask - aren't these companies trustworthy enough to self-regulate? The evidence says absolutely not. We've seen how unregulated social media platforms contributed to mental health crises, election interference, and the spread of dangerous misinformation. AI is exponentially more powerful, and the stakes are infinitely higher. Based on my research, here's what you should do: Contact your representatives and demand they pass federal AI legislation that actually protects consumers, not just corporate profits. Support your state attorneys general who are fighting back - 35 of them have already condemned this order. And most importantly, stay informed about how AI systems are being used in decisions that affect your life. I've already started tracking which companies comply with existing state transparency requirements versus those trying to avoid them entirely. The pattern is revealing - the companies fighting hardest against regulation are often the ones with the most to hide. The choice is clear: we can have AI innovation with safeguards, or AI innovation that leaves ordinary Americans completely exposed. This executive order chooses the latter, and that's a gamble with your safety that no president should be allowed to make.