ALI Perspective

The American Leadership Initiative was pleased to see the announcement of an AI roadmap from the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, led by Senator Schumer, together with Senator Mike Round.

Most of you know that ALI has been working on AI global governance for more than a year, developing recommendations for the Administration and Congress, and releasing a paper later this month. A preview of that paper was recently published in the Hill, 5 Ways the U.S. can Drive the World’s AI Agenda.

The Senate roadmap includes a $32 billion investment in AI innovation and R&D across a broad swath of U.S. government agencies, together with recommendations supporting AI's use in the workforce, in securing elections, privacy and transparency, and national security. 

The work will now begin in a number of congressional committees to translate the group's recommendations into legislation. This announcement came the day after another important step, the first meeting on AI between the Administration and Chinese officials. 

Coming Up

May ALI member meeting:

Critical Minerals Discussion: Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) will join ALI for a look at the dynamics driving U.S. critical minerals policy and the latest Administration efforts to secure the U.S. supply chain for these minerals so essential to U.S. climate goals and its national and economic security.

June ALI member meetng:

Quantum Computing Policy Roundtable: ALI will convene Congressional staff, Admin officials, companies, and other experts to discuss how the U.S. can maintain its leadership in Quantum technologies, a leading-edge technology with potentially even more impact than artificial intelligence (AI).

June public meeting:

U.S. Funding Agencies Webinar: Stay tuned for an invitation to ALI's webinar with U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), U.S. Eximbank and other U.S. officials to discuss their strategies to support U.S. global competitiveness.

ICYMI

May Trade Update Lunch

Alexandra Whittaker, Chief Trade Counsel and House Trade Subcommittee Staff Director; Jorge Rueda, Subcommittee Trade Counsel joined ALI members for a robust conversation on the new China tariffs, GSP, MTBs, AGOA, USMCA and more.

ALI Hosts Program for Congressional Staff on Digital Trade



ALI hosted a program for 25 New Democrat Coalition congressional staffers to discuss developments on digital trade, including USTR's recent pause in negotiations. The panel featured ALI CEO Orit Frenkel; Jennifer Brody, Freedom House; Christine Bliss, Coalition of Service Industries; Bill Reinsch, CSIS; and John Morris from the Internet Society.

White House: Remarks by John Podesta at the Columbia Global Energy Summit

CAP: A Progressive, Principled, and Pragmatic Approach Toward China Policy - Center for American Progress

The Liberal Patriot: America Needs a National Aerospace Plan

"While America’s aerospace industry has been licking these self-inflicted wounds, rivals and competitors overseas have moved forward with their own air and space projects. China, for instance, aims to land its own astronauts on the Moon by 2030, plans to launch its own Mars sample return mission that same year, and has made a push to sign nations up to its proposed Moon base—what it calls the International Lunar Research Station. Beijing also subsidizes the C919, its own entry into the global commercial airliner market."