A bipartisan proposal in the Senate would create standards for government procurement of artificial intelligence in part by classifying systems according to risk.
The bill sponsored by Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and co-sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is among the first to emerge after several summits on Capitol Hill on how to handle AI. It would require each federal agency to create the position of a chief AI officer and grade systems on a scale from unacceptable to low risk.
Unacceptable risks, including those that could result in social scoring systems or mapping facial features and emotions, would be prohibited. High-risk systems would require developers to conduct pre-deployment testing and ongoing monitoring.
