Senate Commerce panel holds wide-ranging discussion on countering AI-powered fraud

The bipartisan leaders of a Senate Commerce subcommittee made their latest pitch for a federal privacy law at a hearing on “artificial intelligence-enabled fraud and scams,” while discussing how transparency, best practices and other approaches with bipartisan support can help build public trust in the rapidly developing technology.

The hearing underlined a bipartisan desire to address real-world harms associated with AI, but offered few details on possible action in the waning days of the 118^th Congress or clear signs of...