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Lobby and pass a comprehensive AI regulatory law.
Build and advance a comprehensive AI bill that creates enforceable rules for high-impact systems nationwide. This work focuses on shaping bill language, building a durable coalition, and translating fast-moving AI risks into clear requirements lawmakers can vote on. The urgency is that AI is already affecting decisions about jobs, loans, and policing while the U.S. still lacks one clear set of national rules.
Why this works
- Establishes a uniform, nationwide framework to address AI risks, providing clarity to both companies and the public.
- Can be broad in scope – e.g.
- requiring pre-deployment safety testing, algorithmic transparency, and creating enforcement authority – thus tackling the issue proactively and holistically.
- A law would have binding force and democratic legitimacy, and it can authorize necessary funding for oversight.
Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader. It works to ensure that all citizens are represented in the halls of power by promoting public health and safety, government transparency, and corporate accountability. Public Citizen fights for campaign finance reform and ethics (it helped create the Office of Congressional Ethics:), advocates for safe pharmaceuticals and medical devices, pushes for strong consumer protections in trade deals, and litigates to enforce health, safety, and environmental laws.
Mechanism
How Public Citizen uses funding
- Map the active bill landscape and identify the decision points that move a comprehensive framework.
- Draft and negotiate legislative language that can be enforced, not just voluntary promises.
- Build a coalition that includes civil-rights, consumer, and policy voices to keep provisions strong under pressure.
- Brief lawmakers and staff with plain-language explainers that connect risks to concrete safeguards.
- Track and counter last-minute loopholes, including preemption language that could weaken stronger protections.
- Mobilize public support at key moments so votes are backed by visible demand for action.
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