Congress has three AI bills and no timetable for a vote on any of them
Three senators will put AI legislation in front of Congress this week, and none of them can say when it might be voted on.
John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, plans to introduce a measure on Wednesday requiring developers to build a shutdown mechanism into their systems.
Bernie Sanders is hosting a briefing with AI researchers the same day and has a bill that would ban artificial superintelligence outright. Josh Hawley has already introduced bipartisan legislation covering national security, civil liberties and labour protections.
The Associated Press canvassed Congress on Tuesday and found the same answer in both parties, which is that nothing will move. Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, ran through the list of things Congress has not finished, election security and a budget among them, and asked:
“So you think we’re going to get AI done?”
Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, put it as a rule: “We...
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