Senate AI group offers fiscal 2025 NDAA amendment to develop framework for addressing AI cyber risks to national security

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) have offered an amendment for the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act to direct the federal government to create a risk-based framework for cyber and physical impacts of “highly capable” artificial intelligence systems that are seen as crucial to U.S. security.

“The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, develop a consensus-based framework...