Artificial Intelligence

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY-AL) today introduced the Research and Oversight of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Courts Act of 2026, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to establish a task force composed of judicial experts to examine the use of AI speech-to-text and automatic…

Senators: “Seedance 2.0 poses a direct threat to the American intellectual property system and, more broadly, to the constitutional rights and economic livelihoods of our creative community.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today urged ByteDance to immediately…

Legislation would require corporations—not the American people—to pay for data centers’ expansion; take measures to protect grid reliability  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, recently joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in introducing the Power for the People…

Bill was also filed as an amendment to the appropriations package in the Senate  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and nine Senators in introducing the States’ Right to Regulate AI Act, legislation to prohibit…

As Republicans double down on health care sabotage, Democrats lead effort to halt the Trump Admin’s looming Medicare AI prior authorization takeover  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, this week joined U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.),…