Professor of Law the Hon. James E. Baker, the director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Law and Policy, spoke with Fox News Digital about the potential use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to control artificial intelligence models and companies.
Baker pointed to the DPA's broad information-gathering authority.
"What you could use the DPA for is to require reporting, and that's the first step to making sound policy," Baker told Fox News Digital. "You can have a debate about whether there should be regulation and what the regulation should look like. But you really can't argue against knowing what's happening."
"That's the first place to start: know what's happening, and then you can react with either a policy prescription, a legal prescription or nothing at all,” said Baker.