This is not an accurate depiction of the law. This doesn’t mean you can slap AI on something and completely ignore existing right of way laws or discrimination

This is not an accurate depiction of the law. This doesn’t mean you can slap AI on something and completely ignore existing right of way laws or discrimination laws (which are generally Federal anyways). It simply means that Federal law will take priority in terms of specific AI laws and they can’t pass a patchwork of restrictions on the technology so that in Podunk, Flyoverstate the technology is illegal and that impacts the whole country. The reason this is important is that in the United States there is 1 Federal government, there are 50 states, roughly 3,000 counties, 19,500 municipalities, and 16,500 townships. They don’t want startups to face roughly 40,000 law making bodies with varying laws while the technology is in it’s infancy. The Feds have pre-empted many other technologies including: air travel, railroads, auto safety, banking, environmental regulations, medical devices, maritime law, labor relations, nuclear energy, taxation on internet communications, etc etc. It didn’t create a dystopian world where rules don’t exist.