Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On President Biden’s AI Executive Order And The Senate’s Upcoming Bipartisan AI Insight Forums This Week

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding President Biden’s AI Executive Order and the two bipartisan AI Insight Forums tomorrow. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Yesterday, President Biden announced the first-ever artificial intelligence Executive Order that will keep America in the lead on AI.

And later this morning, the Senate’s bipartisan AI gang, Senators Rounds, Heinrich, Young and I, will go to the White House to meet with President Biden to discuss how we can work together to pursue bipartisan AI legislation.

I applaud President Biden for doing the right thing by issuing yesterday’s Executive Order.

It outlines a number of commonsense guardrails that will increase American leadership on safeguards and better protect Americans against all sorts of risks, from cybersecurity to bio and nuclear threats.

President Biden’s AI Executive Order was welcome news, but everyone knows we can and must do more here in Congress. The President’s action yesterday importunes us to act – to augment and expand his Executive Order with bipartisan legislation.

Congress must act with a sense of urgency when it comes to AI, because AI is already changing our world in dramatic ways, and other countries are trying to gain ground on us.

Tomorrow, the Senate will continue our bipartisan work on AI with our third and fourth AI Insight Forums.

In the morning, the AI Insight Forum will begin at 10:30 A.M. tomorrow and focus on our workforce: both the risks and opportunities that AI presents to American workers and our economy. We will hear from leaders in labor, tech, civil rights, and business on how Congress can best protect workers from the changes that AI will bring.

The afternoon AI Insight Forum will bring another diverse group to debate how Congress can prepare for AI in high-impact areas, including financial decisions, health care, law enforcement, among other highly consequential use cases. And we will be careful to pay attention to potential bias when AI is used.

For the information of Senators, tomorrow’s AI Insight Forums will take place in the Kennedy Caucus Room, each will last approximately two hours.

I encourage everyone on both sides to attend and I thank Senators Rounds, Heinrich, and Young for their help making these bipartisan AI Insight Forums possible.

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