Schumer offers NDAA amendment to protect ‘highly capable’ AI from foreign threats

Senate Majority Leader Charles Shumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) have offered an amendment for an upcoming defense policy bill debate to protect from foreign threats “highly capable” artificial intelligence systems seen as crucial to U.S. security.

“The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, develop a consensus-based framework describing best practices for artificial intelligence cybersecurity, physical security, and insider threat mitigation to…protect...