Brenda Leong is quoted in this article from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) examining a proposed federal AI framework introduced by Senator Marsha Blackburn. The proposal aims to address risks related to children, artificial intelligence, and copyright protections.
In the article, Leong discusses how the bill’s preemption provisions would likely preserve many existing state-level AI governance regimes, including bias audit requirements, transparency rules, and automated decision-making obligations already emerging in states such as Colorado, Illinois, and New York. She also raises concerns about the proposal’s potential authority for regulators to request sensitive AI system materials — including source code, training data, and model weights — noting that such requirements could raise significant constitutional and intellectual-property considerations.