Senate AI Working Group Releases Long-Anticipated Roadmap for AI Policy
Summary
On May 15, 2024, the Senate AI Working Group—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM)—issued their long-anticipated Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in the United States Senate with recommendations for Senate committees of jurisdiction on sector-specific AI policy issues as they craft legislation, with the goal of reaching bipartisan consensus on key issues covered in the previously-convened Senate AI Insight Forums. The Roadmap recommends the following: implementing a comprehensive law to protect personal information; ensuring AI systems are transparent and their outputs are explainable; establishing protections for intellectual property and copyright in the context of AI; promoting robust investment in AI research and development; involving agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Energy (DOE) and US Department of Defense (DoD); emphasizing training, retraining and upskilling to prepare the workforce for an AI-enabled economy; mitigating AI risks, particularly in national security, through advanced AI capabilities; prioritizing the ethical use of AI in healthcare to protect patient rights and improve health outcomes; protecting elections and democracy from the impacts of AI-generated content and developing policies to prevent the misuse of AI, includingunauthorized use of personal data and AI-driven fraud. The Roadmap also endorses the CREATE AI Act (S. 2714) and the Future of AI Innovation Act (S. 4178), amongst other bills. Read our client alert on the release of the Roadmap here.
