Senators unveil plan for AI regulation as companies race ahead

A bipartisan group of senators released a sweeping list of recommendations to regulate artificial intelligence on Wednesday — the same week that Silicon Valley companies unveiled a slew of new products aimed at further entrenching the technology in consumers’ lives.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and other key lawmakers have spent much of the past year crafting the 31-page “road map,” which calls for an infusion of $32 billion in federal spending on research and development on the field of AI. It also calls on congressional committees to develop legislation that would create assessments of AI harms, protect elections and address the risks AI poses to sectors such as healthcare and housing.