Schumer Kicks Off First of 3 Senate Briefings on AI
Artificial intelligence “should be treated with the same urgency as national security, job creation and civil liberties,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday during the first of three Senate briefings on AI (see 2306090046). Two more briefings will…
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follow in July. Tuesday’s briefing focused on the technology’s capabilities, applications, limitations and challenges, said Schumer. The briefing included discussion from Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Antonio Torralba, who focuses on machine learning and AI decision-making. July’s briefings will focus on the near future for AI and national security implications. Schumer thanked Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D.; Martin Heinrich, D-N.M.; and Todd Young, R-Ind., for their collaboration on the briefings. The Senate Human Rights Subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on AI. Regulating the technology “out of existence” would guarantee that China wins the AI race, said ranking member Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.: At the same time, Congress should be careful about how AI technology is deployed in the absence of a federal privacy law.