Here are the efforts to grapple with artificial intelligence through regulation
Christopher Hutton
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please place in restoring americaLawmakers worldwide have begun grappling with the rise of artificial intelligence.
Generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and MidJourney’s image generator have grown more prominent in the marketplace. The spread of such technologies has pressed Congress, regulators, and the White House to invest more time and attention into understanding and implementing guardrails.
Here’s how the United States and other governments respond to the surge in artificial intelligence-powered tech.
Congress
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced in April that he was working with AI experts and researchers to create a framework for AI legislation. Schumer has since met with several experts in the industry, including Elon Musk, who helped found AI.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) introduced legislation on April 28 to launch a task force including officials from several federal agencies to investigate how AI could affect user privacy, civil liberties, and due process.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced legislation on May 2 requiring political groups to disclose if they used AI-generated content within their political advertising. This legislation was in response to the Republican National Committee’s AI-generated ad depicting a dystopia if President Joe Biden is reelected.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will host a hearing on May 16 on AI rules and will hear testimony from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
White House
The White House met with several leaders in the AI market last week, including the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
The Biden administration also announced plans to provide more funding to AI research centers to publicly evaluate AI to see if it aligns with Biden’s AI “Bill of Rights” and release a draft of guidelines regarding how federal agencies should use the technology.
Regulators
The Federal Trade Commission, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pledged on April 25 to do everything in their power to combat artificial intelligence-powered discrimination and fraud in the workplace.
FTC chair Lina Khan wrote in a New York Times op-ed that the tools to regulate AI were already around.
Overseas
The European Union on Thursday advanced a comprehensive regulatory framework that would ban the use of AI facial recognition in public spaces and AI predictive police software. It would also set new transparency measures for chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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Italy banned ChatGPT due to the bot allegedly violating Italian privacy rules. The chatbot resumed services weeks later after OpenAI implemented appropriate privacy measures.
The Cyberspace Administration of China restricted “deep synthesis” technology like ChatGPT to bar any information they deem “fake news” or disruptive to the Chinese economy and national security. It also demanded that chatbots created in China be trained with approved information, including data promoting “socialist core values.” The country arrested one man for spreading false information created by ChatGPT on Monday.