Congress advanced Rep. Nancy Mace's AI training bill through committee this week, a bid to make sure the federal government is ready to deal with AI systems.
Mace's bill is similar to one Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, introduced earlier this year "Congress will be the last place that is ready for AI, but we want to make sure that – small parts, to me, small parts make a big difference.
And so we're doing a small bill today that will help educate federal employees about advances in AI and uses of AI technology because it will make the federal government more efficient," Mace explained."There's so many benefits… we want to make sure that our federal workforce is more educated than they are today." While her legislation seeks to implement responsible guardrails on AI within the federal government, Mace distanced herself from the litany of efforts in recent weeks to impose regulations on the sector."I think it’s premature to do that," the congresswoman said. "The government does this – we often overregulate, and when you overregulate, you're going to stifle innovation. Costs go up. And we're competing with China, we're competing with other countries around the world." Mace warned against going far with regulating AI, however, citing the need to keep the U.S. competitive against ChinaMace cited the European Union as an example, whose incoming AI regulations have been criticized by over 100 European companies, according to The Verge. "I don't believe the government needs to be in the business of making technology framework happen. I believe that we need to be guided by industry. They're the ones that are leading now," she said.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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