One of the Senate’s Republican leaders on artificial intelligence released the broad strokes of a plan on AI regulation Wednesday, along with a draft bill that would establish a regulatory “sandbox” with the hope of driving AI innovation.
Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, put forward what he called a regulatory “light-touch” framework along with the draft bill text and a bill summary. The bill would allow companies to request waivers from certain federal regulations, which the government could grant for two years at a time.
The release came as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios, appeared before a Commerce Committee panel where Republicans indicated their support for President Donald Trump’s strategy, dubbed the AI Action Plan.
