New Executive Order Plants the Seeds of a Federal Framework for Artificial Intelligence Regulation

The December 11, 2025 Executive Order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” seeks to establish a unified federal approach to AI by mobilizing federal agencies to challenge state laws, condition federal funds on state regulatory choices, and pursue agency actions that would preempt conflicting state rules. The order signals an assertion of federal primacy over AI policy, but it does so largely through executive action and agency processes rather than through…
By: Snell & Wilmer