Congress hates Big Tech, but it seems to be optimistic about Artificial Intelligence


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Both parties have stressed the importance of reining in the fast growing technology which can now produce realistic-sounding text and images. Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said he was working on legislation that would address the risks that artificial intelligence poses while allowing innovation to flourish.

The New York Democrat is interviewing members of his own party and Republicans to gauge their interest in supporting a new proposed artificial intelligence law.

“We need to maximize the good over the bad. Congress has the opportunity to make a decision. We had the same choice when we faced social media. Blumenthal said Tuesday that they failed to seize that moment. “Now we have the obligation to do it on AI before the threats and the risks become real.”

A group of House members will host a top industry figure for a dinner. The Senate will consider new oversight of the technology on Tuesday.

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“AI, or automated decision-making technologies, are advancing at breakneck speed,” said law professor Ifeoma Ajunwa, who co-founded an AI research program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There is an artificial intelligence race. the regulations are not keeping pace.”

She and some industry experts say artificial intelligence should be called “automated decision-making” because it is a reflection of human decision-making.

“For me right now, the power of AI to influence elections is a huge concern,” Hawley said. What can we reasonably do about the threat level there, after we figure out what it is?

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., chairs the subpanel that will hold Tuesday’s hearing. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, will testify for the first time before a congressional panel.

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, plans to hold at least one hearing on AI during every work period.

Peters writes several bills for Congress, including four that have been passed in the last Congress.

He said that the focus would be on that in Homeland Security. There was a hearing last month. We’re going to have another one coming up later this month.”

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This year, Lieu introduced the first piece of federal legislation written by AI. Lieu asked the bot how he should write his resolution pushing for regulations for artificial intelligence.

“You have many harms in the future that we don’t know about and so Congress should look at ways to regulate,” Lieu told reporters just before introducing the legislation.

Ajunwa is a law professor who wrote a book on how tech is changing the workplace and worried about privacy issues. She said that the focus is on profits, rather than the technology’s impact on disadvantaged people.

Ajunwa says that with the U.S. already lagging behind the technology — for example, the European Union is already years ahead in regulation efforts — the best bet for regulation may be quicker White House executive actions.

Mr. Altman said in March that it would be crazy to not be afraid of A.I. “The current worries that I have are that there are going to be disinformation problems or economic shocks, or something else at a level far beyond anything we’re prepared for.” He is expected to testify that the regulation of A.I. is essential.

The hearing on Tuesday, just the first of many that will be held over the summer, is not clear as to what Congress plans to do with Artificial Intelligence. Legislators ran other ideas past Altman like making Artificial Intelligence companies liable for the harms they cause users.

Josh Hawley said that agencies typically get captured by the interests that they are supposed to regulate. “Why don’t we just let people sue you?”

Regulators have also started to focus on how they could better regulate the industry. In April, the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Justice Department, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a joint statement warning companies that they already had the authority to go after them when their products harm users — whatever steps Congress ultimately takes.

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There has been an acknowledgment that A.I. is growing by leaps and bounds, and that Microsoft researchers recently wrote a paper saying that its technology has shown signs of human reasoning.

Enforcement agencies are also staying vigilant: Lina Khan, the F.T.C.’s chair, warned recently of potential anticompetitive practices by tech giants pursuing A.I., as well as of potential fraud enabled by new products.

Vice President Harris met with other A.I. executives as the Biden administration said it supported efforts to create new rules and government investment.

As the C.E.O. of OpenAI, Sam Altman has become one of the most prominent evangelists for the next generation of artificial intelligence offerings. ChatGPT, his company’s most notable product, has captured the public’s imagination like no tech product has in years, inspiring hopes and fears about its transformative powers.

As Mr. Altman prepares to testify before a Senate judiciary subcommittee today, his first appearance before Congress, expect plenty of questions about how his company and its rivals are rushing to create a new generation of technologies — and how they should be regulated.