Just over 10 months ago, the U.S. Senate started considering what the nation should do about the rise of artificial intelligence. I was there, testifying in front of the Senate hearing that kicked off months of frenzied AI focus on Capitol Hill, alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and IBM’s Christina Montgomery. We answered question after question on how to regulate AI and what was at stake.
The overwhelming, bipartisan sense of the room was that the United States needed to address AI policy, urgently. Yet so far not one major piece of AI legislation has reached the floor.
At the time, Democrats and Republicans agreed that the Senate had been too slow to act on the explosive rise of social media, and the clear consensus […]
We are a society which tolerates massive fraud, in economics, politics, public policy and science. AI is theft on a grand scale, and for all our talk about property rights Congress does nothing to protect the work, likeness, sounds, and images of millions. It is stolen for use to generate fraud. What’s worse our Congress does not value privacy, as demonstrated by their renewal of section 702 of FISA. After all, getting warrants to access American’s communication is so 1970’s. I have zero faith the members will stand in the way of “progress”. They will do what they do best – dither. Then some revelation will occur and they will be “shocked, just shocked”. With the exception of curtailing the rights of the citizen, there is little that is proactive which occurs in Washington,D.C.