Chamber of Progress hopes for a greater focus on consumer protection and access to technological benefits when Democrats take over the majority in January.
The Chamber of Progress, a center-left tech industry policy coalition, is calling on the 2027 Democratic Congress to establish federal artificial intelligence safety standards.
In a Nov. 4 memo to House and Senate Democratic leadership, the Chamber of Progress laid out a technology to-do list for 2027, with an eye on delivering more consumer protection and access to technological benefits.
The memo laid out 10 priorities, chief among them passing a federal AI transparency and safety standard.
“Democrats should establish a national AI framework combining public transparency, independent evaluation, and enforceable safeguards for the most capable models,” Koustubh KJ Bagchi, the group’s vice president of policy and government relations, wrote in the memo.
Bagchi said Congress should require developers to publish safety frameworks, report critical incidents and protect whistleblowers.
He pointed to the FRONTIER Act, which Reps. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., and Lori Trahan, D-Mass., introduced in July, as a piece of legislation for Cong...