Fedscoop July 18, 2023
The legislation comes as federal agencies continue to wrestle with how to study and regulate the risks created by artificial intelligence.
New bipartisan legislation proposed by Senators Ed Markey, D-MA, and Ted Budd, R-NC, on Tuesday would push the Department of Health and Human Services to take a more active role in studying the potential biosecurity risks created by artificial intelligence.
One of the bills, which is called ‘‘Artificial Intelligence and Biosecurity Risk Assessment” Act, would charge the HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response with evaluating whether and how more advanced forms of artificial intelligence could be used to develop various types of biosecurity threats, including, for example, chemical weapons and novel pathogens.
The other bill — the ‘‘Strategy...
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