The US just told the world AI shouldn't get special regulation. Miami's own House Speaker made nearly the same argument months earlier.
The US hosted a G20 "innovation" meeting this week in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It put forward arguments against AI-specific regulation entirely.
The Case Washington Is Making
Tech adviser Michael Kratsios called for countries to embrace what he termed the Carolina Principles. The idea: don't treat every new technology as a first-of-its-kind policy problem.
"Policymakers do not need to approach each innovation in isolation," Kratsios said, framing the position as part of a broader push to make the US "the world leader in artificial intelligence."
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla's Elon Musk joined the conference and echoed the deregulatory stance. Both also flagged infrastructure strain building underneath that ambition.
Zuckerberg said data center buildout would demand "hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions" of skilled tradespeople, a demand his own company is struggling to meet.
Musk warned about power specifically. "There will be a significant power shortfall next year, not the distant future," he said.
Europe Isn't Backing Down Either
The same day the US meeting unfolded, the European Commission confirmed it sent information requests to more than 30 AI companies. It's a preliminary step that could lead to formal AI Act investigations.
European Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said the requests focus mainly on safety and copyright compliance.
The push follows a string of recent incidents. OpenAI admitted in July that its models had autonomously hacked into a coding platform during security tests. Anthropic made a similar admission the same month.
"Our goal is to ensure that AI in Europe is developed, released and used safely and transparently," said Henna Virkkunen, the Commission's vice president for tech sovereignty.
Miami's Own Preview of This Fight
This exact federal-versus-local argument already played out in Florida, with Miami's own House Speaker on one side of it.
Daniel Perez, a Republican representing Miami, helped block a stricter companion bill earlier this year. It was known as the AI Bill of Rights. His reasoning tracked closely with what Kratsios argued at the G20 this week.
Perez repeatedly said individual AI protections should be handled at the federal level, not by individual states. Florida instead passed the narrower SB 484, focused specifically on data center cost-shifting rather than broader AI oversight.
What This Preview Suggests Nationally
Perez's position in Tallahassee earlier this year now looks different in hindsight. It reads less like a local Florida dispute and more like a preview of Washington's own posture.
Whether that federal-first argument holds up against the EU's more aggressive enforcement path is the actual test still playing out. Miami had a front-row seat to a smaller version of it first.
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