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WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — United States Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) launched “A Framework for America’s Artificial Intelligence Future,” a new comprehensive legislative agenda to establish rules for AI.
The agenda consists of passing multiple bills to address four key priorities, including building AI infrastructure responsibly, promoting competition and safety, preparing workers for economic disruption and technological change and strengthening America’s national security advantage.
“Artificial intelligence will reshape nearly every aspect of our economy and society. The only question is whether Congress is going to help shape that future or spend the next decade scrambling to catch up,” Warner said. “We need policies that encourage innovation while protecting consumers, strengthening competition, preparing our workforce, and ensuring AI advances America’s national security, not undermines it.”
Warner plans to introduce the Data Center Tax Accountability and Disclosure Act, which would require large AI data centers to publicly disclose key information about their energy and water consumption, emissions, backup generation and other operational impacts.
This legislation would also reform the federal tax treatment of AI data centers by conditioning the federal bonus depreciation, a valuable tax benefit, on meeting strong efficiency and sustainability standards.
Another bill part of Warner’s initiative is the AI AGENT Act, which would establish rights and responsibilities for consumer-facing AI agents.
Similarly, the Safeguarding Against Fabricated Exploitation Through Artificial Intelligence Act was announced by Warner Tuesday, which would combat AI-generated child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate images.
Warner will also reintroduce the Financial Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction Act, a bipartisan proposal that requires financial regulators to address uses of AI-generated content that could disrupt financial markets.
The National Workforce Transition Fund is another proposal that Warner introduced. The legislation would dedicate revenue generated by limiting bonus depreciation for AI data center infrastructure to this fund supporting worker training, individual workforce training accounts, employer retention and redeployment grants, tuition assistance for high-demand fields, workforce data modernization and innovative pilot programs to help workers navigate technological disruption.
Continuing his initiative for preparing the workforce, Warner announced the Promoting High-skilled Doctoral Talent Act, legislation to expand STEM talent by helping universities create accelerated pathways from undergraduate education to Ph.D. programs in critical technology fields.
Warner’s last piece of legislation attached to this initiative is the Secure AI Development Act, which would establish a mandatory secure testing environment for the nation’s most advanced AI models before deployment, modernize the government’s process for identifying and disclosing AI-related cybersecurity vulnerabilities, improve information sharing between government and AI developers and create a voluntary AI safety incident reporting system.
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