Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer met with a small bipartisan group of senators to take the next steps toward crafting comprehensive legislation to regulate artificial intelligence.
The group included New Mexico Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich and Republican Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Todd Young, R-Ind. They agreed that the plan must be bipartisan, and they can't take too long to craft the plan, Schumer said.
"Congress must move quickly. Many AI experts have pointed out that the government must have a role in how this technology enters our lives. Even leaders of the industry say they welcome regulation," Schumer said on the Senate floor on Thursday. "So if we are to fulfill our role properly, our approach to AI must be fast-moving. We can't move so fast that we do flawed legislation, but there's no time for waste or delay or sitting back."
The move comes after several congressional panels held hearings this week on AI, including a Senate Judiciary subcommittee meeting with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
Schumer has met with dozens of AI experts and for the last several weeks has been circulating a high-level framework outlining a new regulatory regime for AI.
The plan would allow independent experts to review and test AI technologies ahead of public release and give users access to the results.
It's centered around four guardrails Schumer calls the "who, where, how and protect" with the first three guardrails focused on transparency to...
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