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The U.S. Senate is nudging plans to regulate artificial intelligence after months of watching how ChatGPT and similar tools would affect or disrupt broad areas of society. .
But despite senators outlining the plan, it will still be months before the bill is passed or signed, let alone a comprehensive bill to put guardrails in place for the industry. The planned pace of progress contrasts with the rapid adoption of generative AI by businesses and organizations, and the rush to invest in the industry.
The Senate plan is to brief lawmakers on the basic facts of artificial intelligence over the summer before beginning consideration of the bill in the months to come, even though some senators have begun proposing it. I am asking for
The effort reflects an urgent call by civil society groups and industry for guardrails against technology, yet many legislators remain unresponsive.
To help educate lawmakers, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that he will be holding three senator-only briefings over the next few weeks.
The closed-door briefing will cover a wide range of topics, from the current capabilities of AI and the race to develop it, to how US national security and defense agencies are already leveraging the technology. The latter session will be the first confidential senatorial briefing on AI, according to Schumer.
“The Senate must develop expertise on this pressing subject,” Schumer wrote in a letter to colleagues announcing the press conference. “AI is already changing our world, and experts repeatedly say AI will have a profound impact on everything from national security to classrooms to the workforce. It also includes the possibility of leaving the job.”
Schumer launched a high-level push for the AI bill in April, when he proposed shaping the final bill on four principles that promote transparency and democratic values. .
According to South Dakota Republican Senator Mike Rounds, one of three other senators Schumer named to lead a comprehensive AI bill, the briefing will take place when Congress enters its August recess. It is expected to be finished by
Lowndes told reporters Wednesday at the Washington conference that “there are a lot of ideas floating around,” but it’s not necessarily a bill to mention.
How Schumer, Lowndes, and other key members of the AI Task Force, New Mexico Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich and Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young, coordinate the various legislative proposals. Not decided yet.
Options include forming an elected committee to create a comprehensive AI bill, or “dividing it up and having many different committees come up with different bills,” Roundes said. said.
The AI hype has spawned high-profile public hearings and sporadic policy proposals. Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, calling for regulation and wowing enthusiastic House members with a tech demonstration the night before.
Senator Michael Bennett, for example, introduced a bill that would create a new federal agency with powers to regulate things like AI. And on Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley announced a unique framework for the AI bill that would allow Americans to sue companies for damages caused by AI models.
Rounds told reporters that Schumer has not set a deadline for enacting AI legislation, adding that his current goal is to “melt the idea for a while.”
But given the expected impact of AI on many government agencies and industries, he said, similar to how the Senate would create an annual spending package known as National Defense, he said a broad and broad Predicted that it would be impossible not to foresee an open legislative process. Licensing law.
“We’re going to bring all these ideas and start putting this bill together very quietly behind the scenes in a way,” he said. “We will go through a committee process and put forward a bill that this could be passed, and then allow other commissioners to come in and submit amendments. It works fine.”
