{"id":201562,"date":"2026-04-02T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/louisiana-scraps-some-but-not-all-ai-proposals-after-trump-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:25:14","slug":"louisiana-scraps-some-but-not-all-ai-proposals-after-trump-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/louisiana-scraps-some-but-not-all-ai-proposals-after-trump-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana scraps some, but not all, AI proposals after Trump threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/04\/02\/louisiana-scraps-some-not-all-ai-proposals-after-trump-threats\/\">Louisiana scraps some, but not all, AI proposals after Trump threats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/04\/02\/louisiana-scraps-some-not-all-ai-proposals-after-trump-threats\/\">https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/04\/02\/louisiana-scraps-some-not-all-ai-proposals-after-trump-threats\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 09:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.fox8live.com\">www.fox8live.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump threatened to cut federal funding from states that regulate AI, causing Louisiana lawmakers to back off on proposing guardrails for the industry.<\/li>\n<li>At least a third of the nearly 20 AI-related bills proposed by Louisiana legislators have been shelved due to Trump&#8217;s threats.<\/li>\n<li>Some legislators and conservative think tanks argue that state-level AI regulation would hinder national progress and competitiveness against countries like China.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the threats, a bipartisan group of five lawmakers is still pursuing at least six AI bills, focusing on issues like medical consent, AI disclosure during calls, and restrictions on mental health chatbots.  <\/li>\n<li>Measures aimed at preventing AI-generated child abuse and pornography are progressing in the Louisiana Legislature, with three related bills receiving floor votes.<\/li>\n<li>Louisiana is not alone in scaling back AI regulation due to Trump&#8217;s warnings; similar actions have been seen in Florida and Utah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana scraps some, but not all, AI proposals after Trump threats https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/04\/02\/louisiana-scraps-some-not-all-ai-proposals-after-trump-threats\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-02&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wvue-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/TENDIDQ7DBHEPOYXNBWE2N2LYA.jpg?auth=1a18ac051997ed995b1afa50db02daaa37774c7a4182b4a833274940547336d5&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201564,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201562\/revisions\/201564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}