AI Supremacy Newsletter
A closer look at the United States Senate’s AI Policy Agenda
How will the U.S. regulate AI in the long run? A bipartisan working group led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and including Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) released this first step on May, 17th, 2024.
According to Politico, most voters are worried about the use of AI in this year’s elections, but have mixed feelings on what to do about it. The AI Roadmap, titled “A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the U.S. Senate,” is the culmination of extensive discussions, stakeholder meetings, and nine AI Insight Forums.
The Roadmap outlines several key objectives and policy priorities that merit bipartisan consideration in the Senate. These include:
- Increasing funding for AI innovation: To maintain global competitiveness and US leadership in AI and perform cutting-edge AI research and development
- Enforcing existing laws and addressing unintended bias: Prioritizing the development of standards for testing potential AI harms and developing use case-specific requirements for AI transparency and explainability
- Workforce considerations: Addressing the impact of AI on the workforce, including job displacement and the need for upskilling and retraining workers
- National security: Leading globally in the adoption of emerging technologies and addressing national security threats, risks, and opportunities presented by AI
- Deepfakes and content creation: Addressing challenges posed by deepfakes — media that has been digitally manipulated to replace one person’s likeness with that of another, non-consensual intimate images, and the impacts of AI on professional content creators and the journalism industry
- Data privacy: Establishing a strong comprehensive federal data privacy framework
- Mitigating long-term risks: Addressing the threat of potential long-term risk scenarios associated with AI
