On Tuesday, Senators John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and John Thune (R-ND) sent a joint letter to Director Arati Prabhakar of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) outlining concerns around authenticating media generated by artificial intelligence (AI). The bipartisan initiative joins efforts such as Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) proposal for a legal framework around AI regulation as well as the recent agreement of leading AI companies to voluntary safeguards. Members of Congress are racing to establish protocols around AI, even as the technology continues to evolve. 

A group of federal lawmakers who have championed the expansion of the child tax credit are once again pushing for action after new census data showed that childhood poverty more than doubled across the country last year.