The US House of Representatives issued a tight restriction on congressional personnel using Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI assistant on Friday.
“The Office of Cybersecurity has decided that the Microsoft Copilot program poses a risk to users due to the possibility of exposing House data to non-House approved cloud services,”
the House’s Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor told a media source.
“We know that government users have more severe data security needs. That is why we announced a road map of Microsoft AI technologies, such as Copilot, that meet federal government security and compliance criteria, which we plan to release later this year,”
a Microsoft spokeswoman told Reuters.
The US House’s top executive office didn’t immediately respond to a Reuters inquiry for clarification.
Policymakers have been considering the hazards associated with government agencies’ implementation of artificial intelligence, as well as the effectiveness of protections to protect individual privacy and ensure equal treatment.
Last year, two Democratic and two Republican senators submitted legislation to prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to create bogus content depicting candidates in political commercials in order to influence federal elections.
