While artificial intelligence appears to be a shiny new bauble full of promises and perils, lawmakers in both parties acknowledge that they must first resolve a less trendy but more fundamental problem: data privacy and protection.
With dozens of hearings on data privacy held in the past five years, lawmakers in both chambers have proposed several bills, but Congress has enacted no federal standard as dickering over state-preemption has stymied any advances.
“I agree that data privacy is going to be the foundation of that trust that everyone believes” is essential to widespread adoption of AI systems, Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said in an interview. “We have got to know who owns what data and that the use of data is not harmful.”
