Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee told a Newsmax program Thursday that artificial intelligence rules must target how systems are applied, or they will lag as new tools appear.

She described privacy work that began with a 2011 task force and a 2015 bill opposed by major technology companies. Blackburn urged a single nationwide privacy standard under one overseer, plus child-safety legislation, creator-rights measures, consumer and utility-rate safeguards, and language-model training free of bias.

She said future applications cannot be predicted, so outcome-focused statutes remain current, and a modest framework would help the United States compete.