Peters pitches AI legislation as model for private sector

A bipartisan proposal in the Senate would create standards for government procurement of artificial intelligence in part by classifying systems according to risk.

The bill sponsored by Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and co-sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is among the first to emerge after several summits on Capitol Hill on how to handle AI. It would require each federal agency to create the position of a chief AI officer and grade systems on a scale from unacceptable to low risk.