According to a highly anticipated policy plan from a bipartisan group of senators, the US needs to protect Americans from the risks posed by artificial intelligence, while promoting emerging technology with at least 32 billion dollars. USD annual government spending to stay ahead of rivals like China.
According to the plan announced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday, Congress should create legislation to mitigate the potential harms of AI and fund research to strengthen the national security and economy of the United States. Ky. US companies include OpenAI, Alphabet Inc’s Google. and Meta Platforms Inc. currently holds the global lead, but China’s race to develop highly advanced systems is putting pressure on lawmakers to come up with a more long-term approach.
The funding will “keep our companies, universities, and workers at the cutting edge and strengthen American dominance in AI, including in competition with the Chinese government that we know they have invested a lot of dollars in this area,” Schumer said during the launch. 30 page document.
The blueprint is the result of more than a year of work on Capitol Hill to familiarize senators with AI, the first step toward drafting legislation to regulate the rapidly evolving technology. The senators last year held a series of closed-door forums featuring labor and technology industry leaders, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk of Tesla Inc., to examine the huge implications of AI for everything from national security to jobs to personal privacy.
The rapid development of AI has raised concerns that the technology could fuel the spread of misinformation and expose consumers’ personal data. Executives from Google, Microsoft, IBM and OpenAI have called for more federal oversight to help ensure safety, and three dozen venture capital firms agreed to comply with voluntary commitments after the President Joe Biden in October signed an executive order establishing initial protections and building on previous commitments from industry.
Policymakers in Washington are looking to build on that effort, capitalizing on the promise of AI to accelerate scientific discovery and solve global crises, while working to limit the dangers. its. Senators said Wednesday’s framework is designed to strike that legal balance and trigger legislative action.
Their recommendations, especially on funding, will be a major boost to overcoming a bitterly divided Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson faces unrelenting pressure from conservative Republicans to cut spending and past lawmakers with a poor track record in managing new technologies, making the Prospects for results are dimmer – especially in an election year.
However, framing their plans as a way to counter Beijing could help their cause. Challenging China on economic and national security is an area of rare common ground for lawmakers, most recently in a new law passed with broad bipartisan support. TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. must sell this popular video sharing application or face a US ban.
Schumer appeared optimistic when briefing reporters before announcing the plan, saying he planned to meet with Johnson in the coming weeks to find a path forward. His co-authors – Republicans Mike Rounds and Todd Young, along with Democrat Martin Heinrich – said they hope their proposal will take effect as soon as this year.
Some of the goals of the AI blueprint, such as protecting elections from tampering and misinformation, could find broad support in Congress as lawmakers Both parties are vulnerable to such manipulation by foreign adversaries. The plan also calls for exploring ways to mitigate the impact of job displacement due to artificial intelligence, including retraining workers, while doing more to protect consumer privacy. use and reduce bias.
The $32 billion figure for non-defense sectors such as healthcare and energy was initially proposed in 2021 by the National Security Commission on AI, an independent panel led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt top. A portion of that funding will go toward agency-led research programs to spur more innovation. Advancing the use of AI in healthcare is another area that senators urged lawmakers to explore further.
US efforts to create barriers lag behind other governments, including the European Union, whose parliament in March passed the most comprehensive regulation on AI in the Western world . The EU measures the bars by using AI to detect emotions in the workplace and schools, and limits its deployment to high-stakes situations such as arranging job applications.
In addition to the Schumer-led blueprint, lawmakers have introduced several other bipartisan proposals, such as promoting government use of AI or protecting artists from being imitated by AI without permission. their consent. The senators’ roadmap directs congressional committees to finalize and advance AI legislation, and also introduces several existing bills they support, such as one that would create a research center common country for educators and students to develop technology.
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