CCIA Offers Comments on Obstacles to US Leadership in AI

Washington – As the White House examines ways to improve US competitiveness in artificial intelligence, the Office of Science and Technology Policy asked stakeholders to help flag any barriers to AI advancement. The Computer & Communications Industry Association offered comments, noting that existing law can cover most aspects of AI and that those regulations continue to offer business certainty.

In response to a question about problematic federal and state laws impacting AI, CCIA noted that states introduced more than one thousand bills dealing with AI and that the 200 that passed could create a patchwork of laws that create problems. CCIA agreed with Administration statements on how needing to get permission to train AI on each individual copyrighted work could stall training and development.

CCIA has advocated for tech policy that advances innovation for more than 50 years and previously published a whitepaper on AI policy recommendations.

The following can be attributed to CCIA Senior Counsel for Innovation Policy Joshua Landau:

“If we are to maintain U.S.global leadership in AI, it is imperative that the country has a regulatory environment that encourages or at least does not impede innovation and new product and service offerings. AI systems need to build on existing information. Regulators need to carefully consider how to deal with issues like intellectual property, avoiding the creation of liabilities that are so disproportionate that investors and innovators will be afraid to enter the market.”