US Congress forbids employees from using Microsoft’s AI
Congress According to a Friday report by Axios, the employment of Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI assistant by legislative workers is strictly prohibited by the U.S. congress House of Representatives.
Chief Administrative Officer of the House Catherine Szpindor stated that “the Office of Cybersecurity has deemed the Microsoft Copilot application to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” as reported by Axios.
“We acknowledge that government users have more stringent needs when it comes to data protection. For this reason, a Microsoft representative told Reuters, “We announced a roadmap of Microsoft AI tools, like Copilot, that meet federal government security and compliance requirements that we intend to deliver later this year.”
A request for comment from Reuters was not immediately answered by the top administrative office of the U.S. House.
Politicians have been considering the hazards associated with artificial intelligence deployment by government agencies as well as the sufficiency of privacy protection and equitable treatment measures.
In an effort to sway federal elections, two Democratic and two Republican U.S. senators filed legislation last year that outlaws the use of artificial intelligence to produce information that misrepresents politicians in political ads.