Artificial intelligence is going to cause more upheaval in society over the next few years than perhaps any other technology the world has ever seen.

But if President Trump's Big Beautiful Budget Bill gets passed in the version preferred by a group of House Republicans, the federal takeover of this technology will be complete, opening up a free-for-all for Big Tech to weaponize it against everyday Americans.

Buried deep in Trump's bill is a secretly added clause that seeks to usurp the rights of individual states to regulate AI.

Republicans in the House Energy and Commerce Committee quietly added the proposed amendment in Section 43201, Subsection C. I say it's secret because it has received almost no media attention.

The amendment reads as follows:

"No state or political subdivision may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

No state regulation of AI for 10 years. This is giving away the farm to the likes of Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Saudi Prince Muhammed bin Salman and a host of other technocrats and billionaires investing in this world-changing technology. And a majority of states, both red and blue ones, are not going to take it sitting down.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is among the 40 attorneys general who sent a May 16 letter to House Republicans arguing against the feds being able to block the ability of states to regulate AI.

Griffin told KATV, the local ABC News affiliate in Little Rock:

"That's a horrible idea, because that's not even replacing something, what the states are doing, with something else, what the feds might propose. It's not doing that. It's replacing something, what the states are doing, with nothing."

That's right. Free and unfettered AI with no protections. No ethics required. That's what the House Republicans want. What could possibly go wrong?

KATV noted that opponents of the last-minute amendment say states have had to step up and begin regulating artificial intelligence themselves in the absence of a comprehensive regulatory framework at the federal level.

"There still needs to be some guardrails, and the lack of action from the federal government has forced states to try and address these things at a more local level," Arkansas State Rep. Scott Richardson, (R) District 13, told the outlet.

This last legislative session in Arkansas was the first where the state really began focusing on powerful, rapidly growing AI technology. About 15 bills were filed relating to AI and about half a dozen were signed into law.