In closed forum, tech titans to give senators advice on artificial intelligence

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for several months about accomplishing a potentially impossible task: Passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that both encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and also mitigates its biggest risks.

Rounds, who spoke to AP with Schumer on Tuesday, said Congress needs to get ahead of fast-moving AI by making sure it continues to develop “on the positive side” while also taking care of potential issues surrounding data transparency and privacy.

Congress has a lackluster track record when it comes to regulating technology. Lawmakers have lots of proposals — many of them bipartisan — but have mostly failed to agree on major legislation to regulate the industry as powerful tech companies have resisted. “You have to have some government involvement for guardrails,” Schumer said. “If there are no guardrails, who knows what could happen.”

But for many lawmakers and the people they represent, AI’s effects on employment and navigating a flood of AI-generated misinformation are more immediate effects. On the more positive side, Rounds says he would like to see the empowerment of new medical technologies that could save lives and allow medical professionals to access more data. That topic is “very personal to me,” Rounds says, after his wife died of cancer two years ago.

 

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