Portions of Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s artificial intelligence “road map” may survive into the new Congress, but legislation stemming from it will favor industry while downplaying civil rights, according to technology and data privacy experts.
The 31-page Senate blueprint, titled Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence, was issued in May by a working group that included Schumer along with Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind.; Mike Rounds, R-S.D.; and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. The document directed congressional committees to prepare legislation in their respective areas of jurisdiction and offered some broad guidance on preventing harm.
“The Senate bipartisan blueprint was weighted heavily towards industry to begin with,” said Frank Torres, privacy and AI fellow at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
