WASHINGTON: The United States Senate introduced a bill that would create a task force to look at the United States' policies on artificial intelligence, and determine how best to lessen dangers to privacy, civil rights and due procedure.
The rampant popularity of AI platforms such as ChatGPT and others, which have been used for years to create text, imagery and other content, has flared a hurry around the world to deduce if and how to regulate its usage.
In the US, national security professionals have expressed their worries regarding its use by foreign foes, and teachers have whined about it being used to cheat in exams and assignments.
The job of the AI Task Force, which could contain cabinet members, will be to determine shortfalls in the regulatory supervision of AI and advise reforms if needed.
"There's going to have to be a lot of education around this set of issues because they're not well understood," said Bennet, a Democrat from Colorado. "There's going to be a lot of improvisation and iterative approaches to try to wrestle with this because AI is so new to everyone in the government."
Under the bill, the task force would include an official from the Office of Management and Budget, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Science and Technology Policy as well as privacy and civil liberties officers from the Departments of Justice, State, Treasury, Defense and other executive branch agencies.
Under the terms of the bill, the task force would work for 18 months, issue a final report and then shut down.