POLICY REPORTS

Regulating Artificial Intelligence: U.S. and International Approaches and Considerations for Congress: Stakeholders in the United States have debated how to approach AI innovation and regulation in order to harness the opportunities of AI technologies, such as enhanced government operations and worker efficiency, while minimizing potential problems, such as bias and inaccuracies in AI-generated output.

The Macroeconomic Effects of Artificial Intelligence: While various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have existed and been used for decades, the recent popularization of AI products such as ChatGPT have spurred further research and debate about how these technologies could impact the economy. AI potentially has wide-ranging uses in the production of goods and services, which could affect the macroeconomy through the labor market, productivity growth, and economic growth, to name a few.

Generative Artificial Intelligence: Overview, Issues, and Considerations for Congress: The public release of many GenAI tools, and the race by companies to develop ever-more powerful AI models, have generated widespread discussion of their capabilities, potential concerns with their use, and debates about their governance and regulation.

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law: This Report explores questions that courts and the U.S. Copyright Office have confronted regarding whether generative AI outputs may be copyrighted as well as whether training and using generative AI programs may infringe copyrights in other works.

Generative AI Use and Management at Federal Agencies: GAO was asked to describe federal agencies’ efforts to pursue generative AI. This report is the fourth in a body of work on generative AI. GAO’s objectives included describing selected agencies’ ongoing and planned uses of generative AI and resulting potential benefits, as well as describing agencies’ challenges in using and managing generative AI and efforts to address these challenges.