Arkansas GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has urged Congress to remove a provision in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that would ban state-level artificial intelligence protections for 10 years.

Writing in an opinion essay for The Washington Post on Thursday, Sanders reaffirmed her conservative credentials and praised Trump’s efforts on the border and the economy. Yet, she broke with the White House over the issue of AI regulations and pointed to state-led efforts to rein in the burgeoning technology’s misuse.

“AI can be a great tool for individuals, businesses and governments, but there have to be commonsense safeguards in place,” Sanders wrote. “In Arkansas, our legislature created basic copyright guidelines for generative AI, protected Arkansans from the nonconsensual use of their likenesses and, most importantly, prohibited the creation of sexually explicit AI images of real people — especially children.”

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