On Friday, the White House released a national policy framework for artificial intelligence (AI) available at White House National Policy Framework for AI – Legislative Recommendations. The framework is built along seven pillars and largely calls on Congress to adopt laws advancing these pillars.
The seven pillars are:
- AI services and platforms must take measures to protect children, while empowering parents to control their children’s digital environment;
- AI development should strengthen American communities and small businesses, while ensuring they are protected from harmful impacts;
- American creators and publishers should be protected from AI outputs that infringe on their protected content without undermining lawful innovation and free expression;
- the federal government must defend free speech and First Amendment protections and prevent AI systems from silencing or censoring lawful political expression or dissent;
- the United States should remove barriers to AI innovation and accelerate development of AI applications in all sectors;
- American workers should benefit from youth development and skills training in AI: and
- the federal government should adopt a federal policy that preempts “cumbersome” state AI laws.
Separately, last Wednesday, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released a draft legislative proposal, titled “TRUMP AMERICA Act,” which would create an AI national standard and preempt a patchwork of state AI laws. Additionally, the proposal incorporates legislation Senator Blackburn previously introduced to protect children from harm and creators from digital replicas related to the use of AI. Click here for a section-by-section summary of the draft proposal.