US Lawmakers Want to Create an AI Regulator by Kari Johnson

At a congressional hearing, Senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad. Senator Peter Welch said his time in Congress has convinced him that it can't keep up with the pace of technological change. The senators did not suggest a name for the prospective agency or map out its possible functions in detail. They also discussed less radical regulatory responses to recent progress in AI. Those included requiring public documentation of AI systems limitations or the data sets used to create them like an AI nutrition label.