Bipartisan Senate Group Unveils AI Roadmap
May 15, 2024A bipartisan group of senators unveiled a “roadmap” for artificial intelligence (AI) that summarizes key findings from the Senate’s AI insight forums last year, and identifies key policy topics that merit bipartisan consideration in the 118th Congress and beyond. Policy priorities highlighted in the roadmap include:
- Increasing funding for AI innovation to advance U.S. leadership in AI, maintain our global competitiveness, and perform cutting-edge AI research and development.
- Ensuring enforcement of existing laws for AI, including ways to address any gaps or unintended harmful bias; prioritizing the development of standards for testing to understand potential AI harms; and developing use case-specific requirements for AI transparency and explainability.
- Encouraging a conscientious consideration of the impact AI will have on the U.S. workforce, including the potential for job displacement and the need to upskill and retrain workers.
- Bolstering national security by leading globally in the adoption of emerging technologies and addressing national security threats, risks, and opportunities for AI.
- Addressing challenges posed by deepfakes related to election content and nonconsensual intimate images, as well as examining the impacts of AI on professional content creators and the journalism industry.
- Identifying ways to ensure higher education institutions and companies of all sizes can compete in AI innovation, including through reviewing federal statutes and regulations that might affect innovation and fully funding the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR).
- Establishing a strong comprehensive federal data privacy framework.
- Mitigating the threat of potential long-term risk scenarios.