Schumer to host first of three senator-only A.I. briefings as Congress considers how to regulate

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is acceptable to big the archetypal of 3 acquisition sessions astir artificial quality Tuesday arsenic Congress considers however champion to modulate the technology.

Schumer announced Monday connected the floor of the Senate that Massachusetts Institute of Technology prof Antonio Torralba, a instrumentality learning expert, would pb the archetypal of the senators-only sessions. Tuesday's speech is acceptable to connection a wide overview of AI and its existent capabilities, Schumer said.

Lawmakers crossed Congress are trying to larn much astir the exertion and fig retired what caller authorities mightiness beryllium needed to tackle its unsocial challenges. Hearings astir AI person focused connected topics ranging from its effects connected intelligence spot to quality rights.

Lawmakers heard from Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, successful May. Since then, different experts successful the tract person hoped policymakers would engage with a divers scope of voices arsenic they see legislation, truthful arsenic not to beryllium overly swayed by an aboriginal concern person successful the space.

The bid of talks was archetypal announced successful a Dear Colleague letter Schumer sent past week alongside Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Todd Young, R-Ind. In the letter, the senators said the 3 discussions would inquire the pursuing questions:

Where is AI today?What is the frontier of AI and however bash we support American leadership?How bash the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community usage AI contiguous and what bash we cognize astir however our adversaries are utilizing AI[?]

The 3rd question would beryllium tackled successful a classified all-senators briefing, the archetypal of its benignant connected AI.

"The Senate indispensable deepen our expertise successful this pressing topic. AI is already changing our world, and experts person repeatedly told america that it volition person a profound interaction connected everything from our nationalist information to our classrooms to our workforce, including perchance important occupation displacement," the radical wrote. "We indispensable instrumentality the clip to larn from the starring minds successful AI, crossed sectors, and see some the benefits and risks of this technology."

In his remarks connected the level Monday, Schumer reiterated, "It's imperative that we senators instrumentality the clip to amended ourselves connected AI and its implications, truthful that we tin guarantee it becomes a unit for quality prosperity, portion mitigating its precise existent risks."

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