American tech leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed forum focused on regulating artificial intelligence.
Lawmakers are grappling with ways to mitigate the dangers of the emerging technology, which has seen a boom in investment and user popularity following the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.
“It’s important for us to have a referee,” Musk told reporters, adding that regulators are needed “to make sure companies take actions that are safe and in the public interest.”
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker praised the discussion, saying all participants agreed “government has a regulatory role” but making laws would be a challenge.
Lawmakers want protections against potentially dangerous intrusions such as fake videos, election tampering and attacks on critical infrastructure.
“Today, we begin a large, complex, and important undertaking: building the foundation for a bipartisan AI policy that Congress can pass,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said in opening remarks. “Congress must play a role, because without Congress we will neither maximize the benefits of AI, nor minimize its risks.”
Elon Musk arrives for Wednesday’s forum.REUTERS
Musk with Palantir CEO Alex Karp and AFL-CIO President Elizabeth ShulerGetty Images
Other attendees included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft Satya Nadella, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, AFL-CIO labor federation President Liz Shuler and Senators Mike Rounds, Martin Heinrich and Todd Young.
Schumer, who discussed AI with Musk in April, said attendees will talk “about why Congress must act, what questions to ask, and how to build consensus for safe innovation.”
In March, Musk and a group of AI experts and executives called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.
Bill Gates arrives at the forum. Rod Lamkey / CNP / SplashNews.com
Human Rights President and CEO Maya Wileyand and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Getty Images
Humane Intelligence CEO Rumman Chowdhury, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.Getty Images
This week, Congress held three separate hearings on AI. Microsoft President Brad Smith told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday that Congress should “require safety brakes for AI that controls or manages critical infrastructure.”
Smith compares AI protections to requiring circuit breakers in buildings, school buses with emergency brakes and airplanes with collision avoidance systems.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley questioned Wednesday’s closed session, saying Congress has failed to pass any meaningful technology legislation. “I don’t know why we would invite all the biggest monopolists in the world to come and give Congress tips on how to help them make more money,” Hawley said.
Regulators around the world have been scrambling to draw up rules governing the use of generative AI, which can create text and generate images whose artificial origins are almost undetectable.
Schumer said Congress must play a role in regulating artificial intelligence.AFP via Getty Images
Senator John Fetterman arrives for Wednesday’s forum.Getty Images
This week Congress held three separate hearings on AI.AFP via Getty Images
Adobe, IBM, Nvidia and five other companies said on Tuesday they had signed on to President Joe Biden’s voluntary AI commitment, which requires measures such as watermarking AI-generated content.
The commitment, announced in July, aims to ensure that the power of AI is not used for destructive purposes. Google, OpenAI and Microsoft signed on in July. The White House has also been working on an AI executive order.
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