Stakeholders seek progress in AI workstreams as federal government reopens

Federal departments and agencies have reopened their doors after a history-making 43-day shutdown and stakeholders say officials must make up for lost time in crucial artificial intelligence policy areas, including defining federal-state boundaries for regulation, promoting job growth and re-engaging with the government’s AI providers.

"The shutdown cost Congress valuable time on the AI policy front as states continued to take action and are now fully in control of national AI governance,” Adam Thierer, senior technology and innovation fellow at...