On May 15, the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group issued its roadmap for bipartisan AI legislation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, NY) announced the launch of this bipartisan AI working group I April, alongside Senator Martin Heinrich (D, NM), Senator Mike Rounds (R, SD), and Senator Todd Young (R, IN).
Over the past year, the group has hosted nine AI “insight forums” serving as listening sessions with industry leaders. These forums have complemented the more than 50 hearings held over the past year by committees in the House and Senate on a broad range of AI issues. The roadmap comes in the form of a 31-page document titled, “Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in the United States Senate.”
The document identifies “areas of consensus that we believe merit bipartisan consideration and makes general recommendations to the Senate committees with jurisdiction over sector-specific AI policy issues. With regard to the healthcare sector, the document encourages the committees to: “consider legislation that both supports further deployment of AI in health care and implements appropriate guardrails and safety measures to protect patients”; and legislation aimed at transparency for providers and the public about the use of AI in medical products and clinical support services.”