Bipartisanship is in increasingly rare supply these days, but in the final weeks of the lame-duck Congress, there’s a last-ditch effort to make some progress on AI regulation.
Republicans and Democrats in both chambers are optimistic about a bill to make permanent the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, which President Joe Biden created last year by an executive order. President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign platform included a promise to repeal that order, meaning the future of the AISI could be in jeopardy.
Republicans — who rarely want more regulation of anything — are actually the most optimistic that a version of the bill is signed into law before Congress wraps up. One way that might happen: the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one of Congress’ main priorities in the lame-duck session.