Mariam Baksh

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) is encouraging Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to determine whether the U.S. and China could work together to mitigate risks from artificial intelligence, while noting potential regulatory gaps for governing undisclosed models.

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) is one of eight lawmakers signed on to a letter asking OpenAI to publicly release the logs of a recent cyber incident but not a similar letter to Anthropic, which has disclosed comparable cyber incidents that together with others across the industry are fueling calls for the regulation of unreleased frontier models.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is giving stakeholders two months to comment on a protocol it's rolling out for testing artificial intelligence systems, which is intended for use in concert with the agency's AI Risk Management Framework.

Presidential AI advisor David Sacks equated proposals recommending the establishment of a federal agency to govern artificial intelligence to relying on bodies like the private-sector Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, in rejecting an approach favored by multiple frontier developers.

The National Science Foundation is looking to leverage artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies by committing $1.5 billion to Notice of Funding Opportunities, to be implemented under a science and technology strategy that seeks to remove regulations and provide more support to the private sector in both the long and short term.

The Consumer Federation of America, in comments to Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee, highlights a need to retain the disparate impact theory of liability while insisting on transparency from developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems used to make decisions covered by civil rights and consumer protection laws.

The Federal Trade Commission intends to enforce its founding statutes and other laws against certain forms of personalized pricing -- a practice facilitated by artificial intelligence technology -- according to a proposed policy statement soon to be issued for public feedback.

The United Kingdom's Artificial Intelligence Security Institute is taking on a crucial task of assessing the cyber capabilities of the leading AI

No one developing, deploying, selling, or using artificial intelligence should be exempt from liability under civil rights and consumer protection laws, according to comments the National Fair Housing Alliance submitted to Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee.

Policymakers should consider invoking the Defense Production Act to speed up the deployment of data centers available to facilitate artificial intelligence, according to a new report from Americans for Responsible Innovation, which calls for an AI “sector” to be officially designated as critical infrastructure.