Peters-Tillis AI procurement bill prohibits handful of uses, gives agencies power to ban others

Legislation setting artificial intelligence procurement standards, expected to move through the Senate Homeland Security Committee this summer, spells out three AI uses that would be prohibited across the federal government while giving individual agencies the power to ban additional uses found to pose “unacceptable risks.”

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on June 11 introduced the “Promoting Responsible Evaluation and Procurement to Advance Readiness for Enterprise-wide Deployment (PREPARED) for AI Act,” with a...