A 10-year federal moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence regulation “makes sense” and is a “smart” move to help the U.S. maintain a strategic edge over adversaries like China and Russia, West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey told Newsmax, Wednesday.

“So I think from West Virginia’s standpoint — and I think from a lot of the energy-producing states — what we see AI as is the next great frontier on American energy production,” McCuskey said during an appearance on “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “The amount of coal and gas that we’re going to need to burn to make the electricity that’s going to make America the leader in AI is going to change our economies forever.”

The proposal to block states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years, included in President Donald Trump’s tax cut bill, aims to preempt AI laws and regulations passed recently in dozens of states, but has drawn opposition from a bipartisan group of attorneys general that have regulated high-risk uses of the technology.

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