Vermont Democrat, Utah Republican Co-Chair State AI Policy Task Force
Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) and Utah Rep. Doug Fiefia (R) will dig into AI policy as co-chairs of a new national task force, the Future Caucus said Monday.
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“The cross-partisan task force … will bring state legislators together to lead responsibly on AI, share cross-state solutions, and elevate the voices of young leaders at the forefront of emerging tech governance,” the Future Caucus posted on LinkedIn. “It's an opportunity for lawmakers to champion ethical and effective AI policy, serve as trusted messengers to the public, and co-author a national bipartisan memo.”
The task force aims to convene lawmakers, industry, academia and civil society, the Caucus said in a news release. It plans to host public hearings and confidential briefings and eventually publish a bipartisan state AI policy memo. The Future Caucus is a nonpartisan nonprofit convening Gen Z and millennial policymakers.
“We’re building the kind of space where lawmakers can get informed and generate solutions to the tech policies impacting their constituents,” said Priestley, who authored comprehensive and other privacy bills in Vermont, in a press release. “This is about translating AI into real-world governance with clarity, creativity and collaboration.”
Fiefia authored a Utah social media law and previously worked at Google. “We can’t afford to let AI policy be divided by party or decided by default,” he said.
The task force is forming after the U.S. Senate voted 99-1 to quash a proposed moratorium on state AI policy. Even so, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, recently told Privacy Daily that the moratorium could return in some form (see 2507210042).