Senators’ AI report urges $32 billion in emergency spending for research and safeguards

The senators said that regulation and incentives for innovation are urgently needed.

A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a new report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to “harness the opportunities and address the risks” of the quickly developing technology.