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Congress has introduced a bill that would create resources for academics in AI. This bill is necessary for America’s AI future.
Somewhat quietly last month, both sides of the U.S. Congress introduced a new bipartisan bill that would radically change the future of artificial intelligence.
Called the CREATE AI Act (Creating Resources for Every American to Experiment with Artificial Intelligence Act), the bill would establish a national AI research resource to provide access to much-needed compute and datasets for academics, nonprofit researchers, and startups.
This bill is necessary to America’s AI future. Why? Currently in the AI industry, we have a concerning imbalance in the control of AI. Only the wealthiest companies – Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, etc. – have the dollars and data to engage in this expensive research. They are building the tools that are capturing the world’s attention: ChatGPT, Midjourney, generative search, and more.
But for-profit companies have one motivation: Profit. Their product labs, focused on short-term horizons, commercial viability, and shareholder value, are defining the conversations in AI and setting the rules of this technology. And the academic labs that think more broadly, with longer time horizons, are being completely shut out.
