WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress want to regulate artificial intelligence, and Big Tech is watching — and lobbying.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., launched a major push on AI regulation late last month, promising his colleagues hearings and a series of "AI insight forums" that will bring top AI experts to Washington and eventually lead to the creation of draft legislation.
Over the next several months, members of Congress — only a few of whom have any technical expertise — will have to choose whether to embrace a strict regulatory framework for AI or a system that defers more to tech interests. Democratic and Republican lawmakers will have to grapple with the daunting task of learning about rapidly developing technology, and with the fact that even experts disagree about what AI regulations should look like.
