Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and his artificial intelligence working group on Wednesday backed a proposal for the federal government to spend at least $32 billion annually on non-defense related AI systems.
“No technology offers more promise to our modern world than artificial intelligence,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. “But AI also presents a host of new policy challenges. Harnessing the potential of AI demands an all-hands-on-deck approach and that’s exactly what our bipartisan AI working group has been leading.”
That level of spending was first proposed by an independent commission, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which was led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and issued its final report in 2021.
