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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks as Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., looks on at a news conference following weekly party policy luncheons at the Capitol in July 2024. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Schumer, Markey call on agencies to set up civil rights offices to mitigate AI bias

The Senate Democrats demanded agencies using AI for “consequential” uses, like job applications or hospital treatment, create and maintain a civil rights office.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., right, and ranking member Rand Paul, R-Ky., participate in a hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 18, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senate committee advances Technology Modernization Fund bill

The Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act passed by a vote of 10-1.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., chairwoman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, speaks with Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., before a hearing on June 9, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Bipartisan Senate bill calls on NSF to boost AI and quantum education

The NSF AI Education Act of 2024 from Sens. Moran and Cantwell tasks the National Science Foundation with supporting emerging tech outreach programs.
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U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D, N.Y., and Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speak to reporters following a Senate Forum on Artificial Intelligence in the Russell Senate Office Building on October 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Government AI funding among priorities in Senate working group roadmap

The roadmap for artificial intelligence policy encourages the executive branch and appropriators to support $32 billion in annual innovation funding.
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