Bipartisan Lawmakers Propose National AI Framework to Protect Americans

While we cannot support the bill in its current form, we are grateful for the much-needed shift toward common-sense guardrails. We value ongoing efforts with federal leaders to advance AI the American way, protecting kids, jobs and our national security.

While it has an uphill battle in front of it, this bill is a serious attempt to govern and we commend the sponsors’ approach of releasing a draft for discussion. It demands transparency from trillion dollar tech companies on catastrophic risks, creates a free-market solution for third-party audits, builds technical capacity in the government through CAISI, and starts preparing workers for AI-driven disruption. These are all good ideas we’re glad to see advanced.

That said, its ban on states’ ability to address AI development is concerning. Harms don’t form when a product is in your child’s hands - a chatbot designed to prey on your child’s loneliness or an unreleased cyberweapon are risks that live in development. States have a 10th amendment right to protect their citizens from those risks.

The bill also takes a narrow approach and does not include any protections for children. Congress has heard grieving parents testify. We’ve all seen what happens when tech companies are granted amnesty to build as they please, with no restrictions on how their products affect our children. We must act now to protect the most vulnerable from the harms of AI.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange-insights-and-commentary/america-needs-one-national-framework-for-artificial-intelligence

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