US Senate’s Return May Kick AI Regulation Into High Gear

Summer is over, but the generative artificial intelligence (AI) revolution continues to march on.

Many of the bleeding-edge large language models (LLMs) from firms like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic  were updated in August — yet outside of China, little real progress has been made on the regulatory front as it relates to enacting guardrails around the new technology’s applications and capabilities.

However, that might be about to change. 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is kicking off his series of bipartisan “AI Insight Forums” next Wednesday (Sep. 13), reportedly promising a “supercharged” highway to AI regulation when the U.S. Senate returns from its summer recess, per a Monday (Sept. 4) Fox News report. 

“In the twenty-first century, we cannot behave like ostriches in the sand when it comes to AI. We must treat AI with the same level of seriousness as national security, job creation and our civil liberties,” Schumer said.