Leamer to lead group fighting state AI rules

A new industry-linked group pushing back against state regulation of artificial intelligence has chosen its leader.

Nathan Leamer, a onetime aide to Republican Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai, will serve as executive director of Build American AI.

Leamer will lead the group’s work for a national policy framework on AI and will have the political muscle of a new, affiliated Silicon Valley campaign spending effort to help him along the way.