As the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus edges up on its two-year anniversary, members’ sights are set on carrying out an array of new technology-centered policies they collectively helped push forward in the last Congressional session.
“We have our work cut out for us as we ensure all eight bills that became law in 2020 are implemented swiftly and effectively,” Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, told Nextgov last week.
Portman co-founded Congress’ younger bipartisan AI caucus in early 2019. In recent, separate discussions, he and a Senate aide briefed Nextgov on some of those freshly passed legislative measures, and the novel group’s plans for early 2021.
A Busy Beginning
Now an invisible constant underpinning services commonly used by most in the U.S., AI makes up a wide-ranging field that’s constantly evolving and hard to define. Adoption varies across federal entities, but the technology is evolving in many agencies and has been making major waves across commercial industries.
A range of government-led AI initiatives surfaced and evolved to drive forward understanding and strategic use of it over the last decade, including a National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan and companion report from former President Barack Obama’s administration in 2016. And in mid-2017, lawmakers in the House of Representatives launched Congress’ first AI caucus, noting that its ultimate goal would be “to inform policymake ..
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