GOP Sen. Josh Hawley rebuked Senate leaders for holding closed-door AI hearing and shared his concerns with the technologyare in Washington, D.C., for a closed-door meeting with federal lawmakers.
At Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's invitation, top tech leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, among others, went to the Capitol on Wednesday to discusssafeguards in a private forum with lawmakers. Hawley, a vocal critic of big-tech companies, told Fox News Digital in an interview the meeting should have been public.
"If Schumer is going to invite all of the nation's biggest tech CEOs here to the Capitol, this ought to be open to the public," Hawley said. "These are the people who have tried to rig elections in the past. These are people who suppressed reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop. These are the people who kick conservatives off social media. Now they're all behind closed doors. They won't answer questions in public. They won't talk to press.