A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both houses of Congress is seeking to ban the U.S. government from using artificial intelligence tools developed by China and other adversarial nations.
On June 25, members of the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party introduced the No Adversarial AI Act.
The bill is designed to “protect federal agencies from the risks posed by artificial intelligence technologies controlled by foreign adversaries,” such as the Chinese communist regime, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, a statement from the Committee’s Democratic Party membership said.
Specifically, the No Adversarial AI Act requires the Federal Acquisition Security Council—an information-sharing agency within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—to compile and maintain a publicly available list of AI technologies developed by firms linked to foreign adversaries....
