Artificial Intelligence & Quantum (AIQ)

Transparency, Accountability, and Civil Rights

As AI systems shape decisions in hiring, lending, healthcare, and law enforcement, governance frameworks must keep pace with both the technology and its consequences. AIQ works to advance practical bias auditing standards, protect civil liberties against algorithmic overreach, and ensure data privacy rules reflect the scale of modern AI deployment. The working group also addresses IP protection in the age of generative AI and develops targeted abuse prevention frameworks, ensuring that AI’s capabilities cannot be turned against the people they are meant to serve. 

Innovation, Economic Participation, and Competitiveness

The United States cannot lead on AI by concentrating its benefits narrowly. AIQ advocates for the access infrastructure, competitive conditions, and community ownership models that allow a broad range of businesses and communities to participate in the AI economy and engages the export frameworks and standards processes that maintain U.S. global competitiveness. The working group also addresses agentic commerce specifically: as AI agents increasingly transact, negotiate, and execute autonomously on behalf of users and enterprises, questions of liability, authorization, and market accountability require proactive policy attention before industry norms solidify without regulatory input.

Security, Resilience, and National Defense

AIQ advances policy on critical infrastructure resiliency and content integrity under pressure from synthetic media. The working group engages threat attribution frameworks for an era of increasingly sophisticated attacks and confronts the dual-use reality of AI-enhanced and agentic cybersecurity, where the same autonomous capabilities powering next-generation defenses can equally be weaponized against them. AIQ also addresses model forensics: establishing standards for tracing AI behavior, identifying model provenance, and building the evidentiary foundation needed when AI systems are implicated in security incidents.

Quantum Computing

• Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness
  • Quantum computing will render widely-deployed encryption standards obsolete, and the migration window is shorter than most organizations recognize. AIQ works with federal agencies and industry stakeholders to advance PQC transition frameworks, prioritize critical infrastructure exposure, and ensure U.S. policy keeps pace with a threat timeline that does not wait for regulatory consensus.
• Leveraging Quantum Computing’s Emerging Applications
  • Quantum computing is transitioning from theoretical promise to practical application across cryptography, materials discovery, financial modeling, and national defense. AIQ works to ensure governance frameworks reflect quantum’s unique capabilities and risks, engages federal research programs to bridge the gap between laboratory breakthroughs and commercial deployment, and advances policy that positions industry to lead in quantum applications before standards are established without adequate input from the private sector.