Schumer details progress on Senate AI legislation

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) says the health and housing committees are behind other panels in drafting AI legislation, with Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Gary Peters (D-MI) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) singled out as leading the charge for upcoming legislative activity.

“We hope our committees will start…having some hearings, marking up and drafting legislation. Some are already,” Schumer said May 8 at the Special Competitive Studies Project’s inaugural AI Expo in Washington, DC.

Schumer said Commerce Chair Canwell “is...