Chamber of Progress circulates tech ‘to-do list’ for Democrats

The center-left technology policy group Chamber of Progress is laying out its policy priorities for Democrats, as the party prepares to take back control of the House and Senate next year.

In a memo sent Wednesday and first reported by The Hill, Chamber of Progress urges Democratic lawmakers to focus on consumer protection, economic opportunity and eliminating barriers to technology.

The memo, written by Koustubh K.J. Bagchi, the groups’ vice president of policy and government relations, was sent to Democratic leadership in both the House and Senate.

Recommendations include the passage of a national AI framework “combining public transparency, independent evaluation and enforceable safeguards” for advanced AI models.

Bagchi pointed to parts of New York’s RAISE Act, which requires large AI developers to publish their safety protocols and report safety incidents, along with California’s AI safety bill, S.B. 53. The latter bill established new transparency requirements for large AI labs, including mandated safety frameworks and transparency and safety incident reporting.

The memo also pointed to Illinois’s S.B. 315, which goes a step further than California and New York by mandating frontier labs with more than $500 million in revenue to submit third-party audits of their........

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