AI ‘Roadmap’ Calls For Action on Key Bipartisan Bills, Policies

Senators ramped up their response to the artificial intelligence boom by releasing a policy plan designed to kick-start legislative action that promotes the technology’s development and prevents its harms.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday unveiled a 30-page “policy roadmap” with Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.)—members of a bipartisan working group on AI that first met nearly a year ago to address the technology’s sweeping economic, social, and national security implications.

The group in the document proposed that Congress work to set rules that protects Americans from threats such as misinformation, civil ...