It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Coming up later this hour,

your stories and feelings about self-checkout. You know, there's an article in

the Atlantic that asks why some people use it even when the line for human cashiers is shorter.

We'll talk to the author of that article and take your calls. But next up, the emerging strange

bedfellows politics of artificial intelligence. The news hook is an announcement from President Trump on

Monday that he plans to sign an executive order placing a moratorium on all state AI legislation.

He wants only the federal government to make the AI rules of the road. But here's some

confounding context. As Puck News reports today, late last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis revealed a citizen bill of rights for artificial intelligence,

which it calls a stocking stuffer list of proposals aimed at protecting consumers from every anxiety-inducing aspect of AI, deep fakes, data collection, chatbots,

engaging with minors in a creepy way, other chatbots, posing as mental health expert,

Chinese AI tools, the fraudulent use of names and likenesses, noisy and grid-straining data

centers, and so on, that from Park News,

and that's a lot, right? A lot of concerns that Democrats and Republicans apparently share,

because contrary to Trump's wishes, all 50 states, all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico,

have either introduced, adopted, or passed some form of AI regulation.

The polls also show that Americans of all generations share AI concerns.

And yet, here's a little text of what the president said at the U.S. Saudi Investment Forum a couple of weeks ago.

Quote, oh, do we have this? We have an audio clip of this.

All right. Sorry about that. Here's Trump himself. We are going to work it so that you'll have a one

approval process, not have to go through 50 states in the United States. You know, you can't go

through 50 states. You have to get one approval.

50 states is a disaster.

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