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The Biden administration and lawmakers, concerned about how AI
could impact elections or influence Americans, have been
pressing for AI regulation, but a polarized U.S. Congress has
made little headway. Europe is ahead, with lawmakers there
drafting AI rules.
The roadmap, Schumer said, would be based on expert input and
broach thorny issues arising from artificial intelligence, from
its impact on intellectual property and labor rights to
healthcare and "doomsday scenarios."
"In this roadmap, which will come out within a few weeks, you
will see there are a lot of good guidelines and ideas of how
Congress should proceed,” he said, during an interview at an AI
summit in Washington. "But you will see different committees
taking a role and translating that, concretizing that, into
legislation," he added.
U.S. officials have warned that AI can heighten the risk of bias
and facilitate election interference via deep fakes. They also
fear that powerful AI models in the hands of bad actors could be
used to help make bioweapons or launch muscular cyber attacks,
with particular concerns surrounding China.
“If we do nothing, China with a whole different system – their
AI is interested in things like facial recognition and
surveillance and stuff like that – they could get ahead of us,”
Schumer added, while also highlighting the potential for AI to
negatively impact elections.
Schumer said lawmakers would take a piecemeal approach to the
issues. "Some committees are a little further along than others.
We're not going to wait to have one huge comprehensive plan that
touches on everything," he said.
(Reporting by Michael Martina and Alexandra Alper; Editing by
Chizu Nomiyama and Andrea Ricci)
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