A technology advocacy group is warning against unseen political implications of state-level artificial intelligence regulations with an ad about fathers.
“I want to plan something special for Father’s Day in New York City,” a woman asks in the Innovation Council’s ad.
“Celebrating your father is a wonderful goal,” a hypothetical chatbot — portrayed as a woman with a neon blue Mohawk — replies in the video. “Although please be advised, under New York’s new guideline, I’ll be referring both to him and this day as ‘Non-Gestating Parents’ Day.'”
“Would you like to honor your gestating parent, too, so as not to singularly praise the patriarchy?” the chatbot asks, prompting the woman to scream with frustration.
“Liberal lawmakers want to regulate AI in their states, and on their terms,” a voiceover says before urging viewers to call their representatives and urge them to pass President Donald Trump’s national AI legislation. In March, Trump asked Congress to build on a national framework that would preempt states from regulating AI and allow tech developers to operate under a single federal rule rather than 50.
The White House said national security concerns require Congress to act, arguing that a single federal framework would save developers from having to navigate dozens of different state laws, allowing the United States to compete more effectively with China.
“President Trump understands that unnecessary regulation is the biggest threat to innovation in America,” said David Sacks, President Trump’s former AI and crypto czar. “Winning the AI race means not only beating China but also clearing bureaucratic hurdles thrown up by state legislatures and woke politicians in D.C.”
In the past, Google’s Gemini, in an effort to be inclusive, generated historically inaccurate images in response to some prompts featuring America’s founding fathers like George Washington as a black man. According to Google, the errors stemmed from efforts to improve diversity in image generation. Elon Musk, founder of xAI and Grok, argued the incident demonstrated that AI models should prioritize truth and historical accuracy over ideological objectives.
According to Pew Research, 50% of Americans are against the technology, saying they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI.
“Whether we like it or not, we are suddenly engaged in a fast-paced competition to build and define this groundbreaking technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization,” Trump said last year.
The Trump administration has taken a pro-AI approach, even advocating for exporting its technology so that the rest of the world builds on the American tech stack — American technology instead of China’s.
Beyond regulation, the administration identified energy generation and data center construction as additional obstacles to AI development. Trump asked Congress to “ensure that residential ratepayers do not experience increased electricity costs as a result of new AI data center construction and operation.” Data centers are projected to consume about 565 terawatt-hours of power in 2026, which is enough to power about 54 million homes for a year.
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