Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), leader of the chamber’s bipartisan working group on AI, has avoided setting a timeline for expected AI legislation. The leader initially promised new AI rules would take “months,” not “years” in June when the AI working group outlined its approach to crafting regulations. But when Congress left at the end of last …
Sen. Josh Hawley presented legislation aimed at stripping AI of its Section 230 protections, which would open tech companies to legal liability for content produced by artificial intelligence. Hawley spoke on this legislation in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, phrasing his arguments around a core point that led to the enactment of Section 230 in …
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The flatlands of Oakland is where the city’s digital divide is most pronounced. From West Oakland all the way into deep East Oakland, areas with the highest concentration of low-income residents, an estimated 37,000 households do not have high-quality access to the internet. While nearby Silicon Valley money has made the price of real estate …
NASA’s budget is declining as a percentage of Federal spending, despite recent increases in nominal appropriation. Unfortunately, the draft bills for the 2024 budget suggest that Congress is returning to underfunding NASA programs. While it is important to control America’s growing debt, cutting NASA’s budget is a strategic financial mistake. As a business school professor, …
The United States has joined other countries in implementing restrictions on the use of generative AI-powered chatbots for work purposes. The US House of Representatives has established a set of rules governing the utilization of the popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI. In a notice to House staffers, Catherine L. Szpindor, the chief …