U.S. Senators Introduce Bipartisan AI Bill to Combat Deepfakes and Protect Journalists
Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) have introduced the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act), which requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop guidelines and standards for content origin information, watermarking, and synthetic content detection. The bill also gives newspapers, artists, and other content owners the right to sue platforms that use their content without permission and requires providers of AI tools used to generate creative or journalistic content to allow owners of that content to attach provenance information to it and prohibits its removal.
Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AL) have introduced the Department of Energy (DOE) AI Act, which requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program that carries out research on the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for the missions of the Department. The bill directs the Department to select national labs to establish at least eight AI research and development centers to accelerate the safe and trustworthy deployment of AI for science and energy, with funding of at least $30 million for each lab per year.