The possibilities of artificial intelligence are increasing at great speed, and while it provides the United States with a ton of money for development, it doesn’t translate into a very obvious move: regulation. A bipartisan group of four senators led by the majority leader Chuck Schumer, unveiled a legislative plan for artificial intelligence that includes $32 billion in research and development. But it gives Senate committees responsibility for developing regulatory measures around areas such as job elimination, discrimination and copyright infringement.
“Because artificial intelligence changes so quickly, it’s very difficult to follow the rules,” Schumer said in an interview published in The New York Times. Nevertheless, the European Parliament broadly approved it in March Legislation to regulate AI it manages its responsibilities based on what risks and impacts AI applications may cause. The European Union said it hoped to “protect fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability from high-risk artificial intelligence, while strengthening innovation and establishing Europe as a leader in this field.”
Schumer disagrees about finding that balance, instead saying in an interview that investing in AI research and development is “kind of the American way — we’re more proactive.”
For absolutely no reason, and to avoid speculating about his reasons for skirting the rules, in case you didn’t know, one of Schumer’s daughters worked as a senior policy manager at Amazon and the other at Meta (which it’s unclear if he still does). In addition, in May 2022 the New York Post informed More than 80 of Schumer’s former employees worked in Big Tech at places like Google and Apple.
