Congress running low on time to address AI misinformation in elections

“The amount of interest in AI in Congress and the States is nearly unprecedented in terms of technology policy history,” Adam Thierer, a senior fellow of Technology & Innovation at the R Street Institute, told the Washington Examiner. “That does not mean Congress will be able to get its act in gear and get anything done on AI this session.”

Congress is “completely dysfunctional and broken,” Thierer said, making it hard to pass any legislation. Only 27 bills passed in 2023, a record low for the legislative body…

While voters cast their ballots in state primaries for the next few months, the general election typically does not go into full force until both parties’ candidates are confirmed at their conventions. While it is possible that Congress could muster interest in passing AI- and election-focused legislation, the legislative branch has “put too much on their plate and partisan political games also now make policy action on even the most basic things (the budget, the border, etc) impossible to accomplish without protracted and bitter battles,” Thierer wrote in a blog post.