WASHINGTON–Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has announced a broad plan for regulating artificial intelligence.
The senator said AI presents an unprecedented challenge for Congress that effectively has policymakers “starting from scratch.”
In remarks in Washington, Schumer said the plan will begin with at least nine panels to identify and discuss the hardest questions that any new regulations around AI will have to answer, including how to protect workers, national security and copyright and to defend against “doomsday scenarios.”
According to Schumer, the panels will be composed of experts from industry, academia and civil society, with the first sessions taking place in September.
Following those panels, Schumer said the Senate will then turn to its own committee chairs and other lawmakers who have been vocal on AI legislation to develop bills reflecting the panel discussions.
Opportunity to ‘Leapfrog’
He suggested the resulting U.S. solution could leapfrog existing regulatory proposals from around the world, CNN reported.
“If we can put this together in a very serious way, I think the rest of the world will follow and we can set the direction of how we ought to go in AI, because I don’t think any of the existing proposals have captured that imagination,” Schumer said in a reference to other recent proposals, such as the European Union’s draft AI Act, which last week was approved by the European Parliament, CNN stated.
CNN added that in contrast to the fast pace of AI advancements, Schumer has stressed the importance of a deliberate approach, focusing on getting lawmakers acquainted with the basic facts of the technology and the issues it raises before seeking to legislate.
Closed Door Briefings
CNN noted that Schumer and three other colleagues have begun by convening the first in a series of closed-door briefings on AI for senators that is expected to run through the summer.
And while Schumer said he has heard the concerns “loud and clear” that Congress is moving too slowly, especially given the pace of AI developments, he added, “It’s not like labor, or healthcare, or defense, where Congress has had a long history we can work off of. Experts aren’t even sure which questions policymakers should be asking. In many ways, we’re starting from scratch.”
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