Codifying National Artificial Intelligence research resources and establishing the AI Select Committee is one of the Congress’ top priorities for House Republicans who co-chaired the Chamber of Commerce task force on emerging technologies last year. is.
During a fireside chat at a online conference in Washington, DC on Tuesday, R-Calif Rep. Jay Obernolte is set to reintroduce the creation resources for all Americans to experiment with the 2023 artificial intelligence law He said. Acts of Creation – and he is “cautiously optimistic” about the prospects for the bill establishing Nia.
Obernolte also said he is pushing Congress to form an AI Select Committee, the logical next step to the House AI Task Force, co-chaired by California Republicans. The task force wrapped up the work last December with the release of its final report.
Obernolte, a bystander at Tuesday’s event, told FedScoop that when it comes to the Create Act, “we’re trying to make it more clear to our colleagues that our computing and data will be donated.” What we offer is a federal framework to manage it. ”
“I think they were afraid that taxpayer resources would be used to fund this calculation, but that’s not necessary,” he continued. “We have a huge pour of donations from industries that want to be like this.”
The law codified Nairr, a shared research infrastructure for AI, operated in a pilot form through the National Science Foundation, came out of the committee’s floor both in the House and the Senate’s final assembly, but in the end did not cross the finish line.
The resources were originally set up in former President Joe Biden’s AI executive order, but their future remains uncertain in a recall of the Trump administration’s order.
Amidst this uncertainty, Obernolte said that the House AI Task Force’s final report (a detailed recommendation on how to deal with the surge in AI tools in legislative activities) is merely the beginning of the Chamber of Commerce work on technology. I’m looking forward to it. He says he is “very confident” that a group of people who are “concentrating on actions on this issue” is still needed, and will launch legislation implementing recommended procedures laid out by the task force. He said he expressed the need to establish a location.
But Obernolte said he and others who support his approach are facing pushbacks from existing policy committees. Whether the AI Select Committee introduces laws to various policy committees, Obernolte said it believes “nuclear is needed to launch the (committee)”. .
There is ongoing debate as to what the Task Force or its Select Committee’s successors will look like this year, but Obernolte has not yet established details about the proposed committee, and he and others said he is still in “a 30,000-foot view.” ”
“We need to make sure there’s a type of nucleus,” Obernolte said. “I don’t know if it’s a working group, a task force or a selection committee, but I think it’s really important that there’s a group of people who are focusing on this task.”
