"For Congress to legislate on artificial intelligence is for us
to engage in one of the most complex and important subjects
Congress has ever faced," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
said on Tuesday.
Lawmakers are grappling with how to mitigate the dangers of the
emerging technology, which has experienced a boom in investment
and consumer popularity after the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Lawmakers want safeguards against potentially dangerous
deepfakes, election interference and attacks on critical
infrastructure.
Other expected attendees include feature OpenAI CEO Sam Altman,
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM CEO
Arvind Krishna, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, AFL-CIO
President Liz Shuler and Senators Mike Rounds, Martin Heinrich,
and Todd Young.
Schumer, who talked AI with Musk in April, wants attendees to
talk "about why Congress must act, what questions to ask, and
how to build a consensus for safe innovation." Sessions begin at
10 a.m. ET and are to last until 5 p.m. ET.
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.
This week, Congress is holding three separate hearings on AI.
Microsoft President Brad Smith told a Senate Judiciary
subcommittee on Tuesday Congress should "require safety brakes
for AI that controls or manages critical infrastructure."
Smith compared AI safeguards to requiring circuit breakers in
buildings, school buses having emergency brakes and airplanes
having collision avoidance systems.
Regulators globally have been scrambling to draw up rules
governing the use of generative AI, which can create text and
generate images whose artificial origins are virtually
undetectable.
Adobe, IBM, Nvidia and five other companies on Tuesday said they
signed President Joe Biden's voluntary AI commitments, which
require steps such as watermarking AI-generated content.
The commitments announced in July were aimed at ensuring AI's
power was 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.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)
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