Schumer lays groundwork for Congress to regulate AI
United States Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer is laying the groundwork for regulations on artificial intelligence. They are likely to impact commercial and defense applications, should they come to fruition. Leader Schumer’s push is considered ‘urgent’ and motivated in part by the U.S.’s desire to keep pace with its chief technological adversary, China.
The regulations in progress would center around four key proposals: ‘1. The identification of who trained the algorithm and who its intended audience is. 2. The disclosure of its data source. 3. An explanation for how it arrives at its responses. 4. Transparent and strong ethical boundaries.’
It is unclear how these bullet points will translate into concrete regulations, but such laws would immediately and directly affect the work of machine learning laboratories.