Recommendation

Congress should pass the AI Incident Reporting and Security Enhancement Act.

Details

There is no process in place to systematically track AI failures, vulnerabilities, and incidents to learn from mistakes and uphold public trust. To address this problem, Congress should pass the AI Incident Reporting and Security Enhancement Act to standardize the tracking of incidents from AI systems and monitor AI-specific vulnerabilities, which are not the same as cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The AI Safety Institute should work with other countries to create a common vulnerability reporting and naming standard to facilitate information sharing among stakeholders globally.

Keep reading:

▪ Hodan Omaar and Daniel Castro, “Picking the Right Policy Solutions for AI Concerns,” (ITIF Center for Data Innovation, May 2024), https://itif.org/publications/2024/05/20/picking-the-right-policy-solutions-for-ai-concerns/.