{"id":24852,"date":"2019-05-24T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/24\/senators-introduce-new-bill-to-out-innovate-china\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:20:09","slug":"senators-introduce-new-bill-to-out-innovate-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/artificial-intelligence\/2019\/05\/24\/senators-introduce-new-bill-to-out-innovate-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators introduce new bill to out-innovate China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Senator Martin Heinrich, falling behind on the development of artificial intelligence carries with it ethical hazard. The Land of Enchantment\u2019s junior senator announced a new five-year initiative to expand AI May 21, creatively dubbed the Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (AI-IA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heinrich, D-N.M., wants the bill \u2014 cosponsored by Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii \u2014 to fund better, more useful and, most importantly, more ethical developments in artificial intelligence throughout government and industry. The danger, central to the AI-IA pitch, is that without a concerted American effort, the future of AI will be decided by forces outside the influence of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChina’s emergence in the AI space poses a great danger to an ethical global adoption of standards and uses of these technologies,\u201d said Heinrich. \u201cThey are not a free market economy that respect civil liberties and privacy the way that our country does. We can already see the danger posed by this in the Chinese use of AI and mass surveillance technologies in their oppression of minority Uighurs in western China. We simply cannot allow this type of unethical use of AI technology to proliferate around the globe or to certainly take root here. That’s what’ll happen unless we step up our efforts here domestically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t