{"id":2632755,"date":"2026-07-20T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survey-shows-bipartisan-support-for-federal-ai-safety-regulations\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:50:45","slug":"survey-shows-bipartisan-support-for-federal-ai-safety-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survey-shows-bipartisan-support-for-federal-ai-safety-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows bipartisan support for federal AI safety regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurvey-shows-bipartisan-support-for-federal-ai-safety-regulations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2632755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Polling indicates strong bipartisan support among voters for establishing a new federal agency to oversee artificial intelligence (AI) and implementing government-approved safety testing for AI models. A recent survey shows that approximately 85% of Democrats and 79% of Republicans favor such regulation. Lawmakers are increasingly pressured to adopt regulations that balance safety and innovation, despite concerns within the industry that strict rules could hinder progress and disadvantage the U.S. compared to China. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed bipartisan Great american AI Act aims to officially endorse the Center for AI Standards and Innovation as the overseeing agency,requiring critical AI systems to pass government-designed tests to ensure safety,privacy,and fairness-an idea broadly supported across political lines. Supporters argue that there is overwhelming public demand for AI safeguards, driven by worries over deepfakes, job security, data privacy, and autonomous AI actions. <\/p>\n<p>Recent efforts include substantial funding and donations from industry leaders advocating for accountability and regulation, as well as bipartisan mandates for labeling deepfake media and tightening rules around AI use related to children\u2019s safety and online protections. However, some critics warn that overreach could threaten free speech and privacy rights. the political consensus appears to favor regulation as a means to ensure AI safety and accountability.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters in political battlegrounds overwhelmingly favor the creation of a new federal agency to monitor and regulate <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?s=artificial+intelligence\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?s=artificial+intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and the implementation of a government-designed test to ensure that AI models are safe, according to a new large-scale <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/publicconsultation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Common-Ground-National-Questionnaire-2026.pdf#page=20\">survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The polling suggests that lawmakers will face increasing pressure in the coming months to sign on to legislation creating new regulatory frameworks for the fast-developing technology, even as some in the industry warn that such rules could slow development and put the U.S. at a disadvantage to China.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4655522\/center-ai-standards-innovation-agency-safety-rules-overwhelming-support-poll\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Artificial intelligence agency and safety rules have overwhelming support, poll shows<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4632230\/august-social-security-direct-payment-goes-out-12-days\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>August Social Security direct payment worth $994 goes out in 12 days<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4631411\/third-round-july-2026-social-security-payments-three-days\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Third round of July Social Security payments goes out in three days<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI regulatory proposals had at least two-thirds support among both Democrats and Republicans in nearly all the competitive states and districts included in the University of Maryland\u2019s Program for Public Consultation survey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur surveys are clearly showing that large majorities of Americans of all political stripes want government to regulate AI,\u201d\u00a0Program Director Steven\u00a0Kull told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThey may come to that conclusion for different reasons\u2014concerns about deepfakes, jobs, data centers, or the potential for AI to act autonomously\u2014but they arrive at the same place. They want safeguards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey assessed 11 competitive states and 28 competitive congressional districts, and included almost 20,000 adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, 85% of Democrats and 79% of Republicans favored creating a federal agency devoted to monitoring and regulating AI.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4604001\/pitfalls-bipartisan-great-american-ai-act-regulations\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4604001\/pitfalls-bipartisan-great-american-ai-act-regulations\/\"> Great American AI Act<\/a>, a new bipartisan AI regulatory bill, would codify the existing Center for AI Standards and Innovation as the agency with oversight over AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats and Republicans also agreed, at 78% overall, on requiring new AI programs that make critical decisions to first pass a government-designed test to ensure they follow regulations, protect data privacy and security, and do not have unintended biases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4591263\/trump-ai-order-early-government-access-new-models\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4591263\/trump-ai-order-early-government-access-new-models\/\">executive order<\/a> signed by President Donald Trump in June, for instance, would have had frontier AI models go through such tests, but on a voluntary basis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t think of another issue where Republicans and Democrats agree by margins approaching 80 percent,\u201d the director of Federal AI Governance and Technology Policy at the advocacy organization Public Citizen, J.B. Branch, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThis survey is a reminder that lawmakers represent voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers who have backed AI guardrails, such as the survey respondents, have received support from bipartisan organizations and industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Trump won the election promising to keep AI free from many kinds of regulations, officeholders are facing new demands to impose rules.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The safety group Public First Action, for instance, recently announced a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4652838\/ai-safety-group-launches-15-million-campaign-republicans\/\">$15 million project<\/a> to support Republicans holding AI companies accountable. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?s=anthropic\">Anthropic<\/a> CEO <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?s=Dario+Amodei\">Dario Amodei<\/a>, similarly, donated <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4652035\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-donated-1-million-ai-regulation-super-pac\/\">$1 million<\/a> to the AI regulation <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?s=super+PAC\">super PAC<\/a> Public First.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One agenda item with strong bipartisan support is requiring labels for deepfakes, hyper-realistic AI-generated media that can possibly spread defamatory lies and damage an individual\u2019s reputation, and prohibiting their use for political campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-the-political-debate-on-ai-privacy\">Lawmakers are also especially interested in drafting rules regarding <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4621426\/senators-bipartisan-bill-safeguard-kids-ai-chatbots-self-harm-concerns\/\">children\u2019s safety<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4618953\/house-deal-pornography-user-age-verification-social-media-protections-minors\/\">age verification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4618953\/house-deal-pornography-user-age-verification-social-media-protections-minors\/\"><strong>HOUSE REACHES DEAL ON PORNOGRAPHY AGE VERIFICATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROTECTIONS FOR MINORS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-the-political-debate-on-ai-privacy\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4621426\/senators-bipartisan-bill-safeguard-kids-ai-chatbots-self-harm-concerns\/\">SAFE KIDS Act<\/a>, for example, would require AI systems to implement child-safety-by-design. The House has also reached an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/4618953\/house-deal-pornography-user-age-verification-social-media-protections-minors\/\">agreement<\/a> on the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, which includes pornography age verification and social media protections for minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-the-political-debate-on-ai-privacy\">Free-speech advocates and some lawmakers have warned that the provisions would create opportunities for unauthorized surveillance or censorship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-the-political-debate-on-ai-privacy\">\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters favor new AI agency and safety tests, poll shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4335,"featured_media":2632756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26175798156521_c1205e-e1784574655651.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[54548,34695,39499,46272],"class_list":["post-2632755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-ai-safety","tag-bipartisan-support","tag-federal-regulations","tag-technology-policy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26175798156521_c1205e-e1784574655651.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632758,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632755\/revisions\/2632758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}