Schumer Unveils Senate Working Group’s Bipartisan AI Policy ‘Roadmap’

The guidance calls for spending $32 billion per year on AI innovation by 2026.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to the press after a Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 13, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

A Senate working group led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) released its much-anticipated Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy recommendations on May 15.

The 31-page “roadmap” identifies several areas for additional investigation and potential legislation but offers little in the way of specific policy proposals, aside from how much they should cost.