{"id":23566,"date":"2026-06-03T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-hell-discuss-ai-regulatory-proposal-with-openai-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:47:08","slug":"johnson-says-hell-discuss-ai-regulatory-proposal-with-openai-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-hell-discuss-ai-regulatory-proposal-with-openai-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson says he’ll discuss AI regulatory proposal with OpenAI chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> said he plans to discuss a developing House framework for a bipartisan bill regulating artificial intelligence companies when he meets with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Johnson is among a number of Washington dignitaries Altman is meeting with<\/a> as he makes the rounds on Capitol Hill and at the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe comes in on occasion to provide updates, and we’re going to talk about AI and the regulatory framework,\u201d the speaker said in a Wednesday morning interview.<\/p>\n

Johnson said he was referencing a discussion draft that Rep. Jay Obernolte<\/a> (R-Calif.) is working with Rep. Lori Trahan<\/a> (D-Mass.) to unveil in the coming days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re trying to finalize it, because everybody understands it’s an important issue,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise<\/a> said in a separate interview that Republicans would be focused on preserving the ability of companies like Altman’s to develop their products without being fettered by state-level laws.<\/p>\n

“There’s still some states with very severe limits on innovation, and that’s that’s a harmful thing for technology in general to limit innovation, and so the only way you can address that is through law,\u201d he said, referring to a proposed federal “preemption” law.<\/p>\n

Scalise declined to say whether Republicans would seek to put an AI bill on the floor this summer or otherwise discuss timing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to discuss a developing House framework for a bipartisan bill regulating artificial intelligence companies when he meets with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday. Johnson is among a number of Washington dignitaries Altman is meeting with as he makes the rounds on Capitol Hill and at the White House. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}