Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and other Democrats put it in no uncertain terms Wednesday: Congress must act fast to ward off threats to U.S. elections posed by deceptive artificial intelligence.
“If we’re not careful, AI has the potential to jaundice or even totally discredit our election systems,” Schumer said at a Senate Rules and Administration Committee markup. “If deepfakes are everywhere and no one believes the results of the elections, woe is our democracy. This is so damn serious.”
His words came directly on the heels of the release of a new AI “road map,” drafted by Schumer and a bipartisan group of his Senate colleagues. The 31-page document calls for billions of dollars in investment into AI research and development and highlights policy priorities for committees to pursue.
