Bipartisan Senate group urges $32 billion in emergency spending on artificial intelligence

Bipartisan Senate group urges  billion in emergency spending on artificial intelligence

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to “harness the opportunities and address the …

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Congress faces pressure to act on AI

Congress faces pressure to act on AI

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 …

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‘We’re laundering plagiarism’: Music experts speak on AI and copyright issues following Senate forum

‘We’re laundering plagiarism’: Music experts speak on AI and copyright issues following Senate forum

WASHINGTON (TND) — CEOs, labor activists, journalists and media industry insiders gathered in Washington, D.C. last week to discuss the challenges to creative industries with the rise of artificial intelligence with members of the Senate. Particularly, those in the creative industries sought to discuss issues of transparency of AI models and what the evolving systems …

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