A Democratic senator introduced a bill to create a task force to investigate policies regarding artificial intelligence, a response to surging interest in AI apps such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) introduced legislation on Thursday that would establish a task force to probe how AI could affect user privacy, civil liberties, and due process. It would also seek to identify shortfalls in the oversight process and recommend reforms.
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“There’s going to have to be a lot of education around this set of issues because they’re not well understood,” Bennet said, according to Reuters.
The task force would include officials from the Office of Management and Budget, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as privacy and civil liberties experts from the Justice Department, State Department, Treasury Department, and other executive agencies.
The proposed task force is the latest move by Congress to try and grapple with the technology as more people use ChatGPT and generative image generators.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) sent letters on Thursday to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and the chief executives of Stability AI, Midjourney, Anthropic, and Percipient.ai asking how each intended to answer the security risks presented by the technology.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced earlier this week that he was working on a legislative framework for a larger AI regulatory proposal that could pass with bipartisan support.
The Federal Trade Commission, the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a joint statement on Tuesday pledging to protect consumers while also managing the growing number of automated systems used in hiring practices.
