The Senate Homeland Security Committee favorably reported S. 4066, a bill that would make it easier for federal contracting officers to buy artificial intelligence products and other goods and services considered commercial information and communications technology.
May 20, 2024
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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s (D-NY) release of a “roadmap” report on AI policies shifts the focus, and burden, to the various committees on drafting legislation to promote the benefits and mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence.
The Project on Government Oversight will oppose a Senate Homeland Security Committee-passed bill intended to ease government AI procurement as lawmakers maneuver to include it in the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has released an “AI governance in practice guide” for government and the private sector on the collection of demographic data for use in measuring “fairness and bias” in artificial intelligence systems, stating that historical misuse of such data -- to the harm of vulnerable communities -- underscores the need for guidelines.
Comments are due June 2 on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s draft generative artificial intelligence “profile” crafted under the NIST AI risk management framework and one of the agency’s key deliverables called for in President Biden’s Oct. 30 executive order on AI.
Labor and public interest activists are warning about the inherent racial and other biases in artificial intelligence in response to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s (D-NY) recently released “roadmap” for drafting legislation, arguing the Schumer strategy woefully downplays those risks in favor of business interests.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can -- and should -- now move more confidently to guide the development of artificial intelligence systems following a Supreme Court decision validating its existence, according to advocates trying to incentivize deployers to use less discriminatory alternatives.
IBM Corp. is offering support for key aspects of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s guidance on “inventorship” and AI-assisted inventions while highlighting a handful of issues for USPTO to revisit, in comments on an initiative launched under President Biden’s Oct. 30 executive order on AI.
The House Armed Services Committee unveiled draft fiscal 2025 defense authorization legislation this week that includes provisions requiring the Pentagon to audit and report its spending on artificial intelligence, with lawmakers expressing concern about the data used to train these AI models.
The Committee for Justice, a group that argues for limited government within constitutional constraints, says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is on target with its guidance on “inventorship” and AI-assisted inventions, and that a flexible definition of “human contributions” will fuel both technological and societal advancements.
The Senate Rules Committee approved along party lines two of Chair Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) legislative proposals for protecting elections from the threat of artificial intelligence, after Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s (D-NY) bipartisan “roadmap” for legislating AI safeguards was released on the same day with a call for protecting elections.
Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) is pressing major tech companies to prove that they are fulfilling their recent pledges to protect this year’s elections from the growing threat of disinformation and deceptive AI-generated content.
Stakeholders weighing in on a new bill with far-reaching export control provisions, and significant political backing, are pointing out its potential to harm open-source artificial intelligence development, which they say could make it harder to improve the safety of AI systems.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to consider giving the president extensive powers to regulate artificial intelligence systems with implications for open-source innovation, as lawmakers look to limit foreign adversaries’ access to technology considered “dual-use.”
U.S. and Chinese officials on May 14 met in Geneva on artificial intelligence “risk and safety,” with an exchange of views on approaches and priorities under a dialogue agreed to at the November 2023 summit between President Biden and President Xi Jinping.
The United States and China will hold first-time talks May 14 in Geneva on defining risks and safety surrounding the use of artificial intelligence, with senior administration officials saying recent international successes in pushing President Biden’s approach to AI will put U.S. negotiations in a strong position heading into the historic meeting.
The Software and Information Industry Association says the federal government should rely on existing rules and frameworks as it considers ways to ensure “responsible procurement” of artificial intelligence products and services under an Office of Management and Budget memo on implementing President Biden’s Oct. 30 AI executive order.
The Office of Management and Budget should look to the European Union for an example in developing provisions agencies can insert into contracts for responsibly purchasing artificial intelligence goods and services, according to the Center for Data Innovation.
The debate over the Transportation Security Administration’s plans to increase use of facial recognition technology for identity verification came into focus, as a bipartisan Senate effort to stall the program failed and critics charged the agency and related industries with making inconsistent claims about the technology’s implications for the use case.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said election security efforts related to artificial intelligence challenges have gone better than expected this year, while expressing confidence in his company’s approach to developing the groundbreaking technology and how it aligns with an emerging policy landscape, during a May 7 Brookings Institution event.
The Department of Commerce is standing up a manufacturing institute under the CHIPS and Science Act “focused on digital twins for the semiconductor industry,” with a $285 million funding opportunity for a private-sector entity to run the “first-of-its-kind” institute.
The Federal Trade Commission’s proposal to extend liability in conjunction with impersonation fraud enabled by artificial intelligence to entities providing the technology is prompting calls by industry and consumer groups for the agency to further detail its plans.
MITRE Corporation expects to have operational by the end of the year a “sandbox” allowing federal agencies to test artificial intelligence systems in response to President Biden’s executive order for safe and secure AI technologies.
Among the first batch of projects to be supported by the recently established National AI Research Resource pilot program is a proposal to use generative artificial intelligence to improve image recognition for the purpose of “discriminative” tasks, according to a summary to project.
White House officials overseeing the National AI Research Resource program renewed calls for Congress to enact funding and authorization for the pilot program, at an event announcing a first round of several dozen research projects intended to guide the development of safe and secure AI technologies.
The National AI Advisory Committee is recommending robust guidelines for federal agencies on the management and transparency of data to ensure the responsible purchasing of artificial intelligence for government use.