U.S. President Joe Biden is scheduled to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) with a group of Silicon Valley experts on June 20 during a campaign fundraising break in California.
The president will meet with at least eight experts, including prominent researchers and AI safety experts. The White House said the topic of discussion was the Biden administration’s “efforts to seize opportunities and manage risks in artificial intelligence.”
Common Sense Media founder Jim Steyer was also on the list of attendees, the Associated Press reports. Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humanitarian Technology. Feifei Li, co-director of the Human-Centered AI Institute at Stanford University. Joy Buorumwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League. Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Institute.
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The group is notable for its individual members’ efforts in education, policy, safety and harm reduction. Previous meetings with White House officials have included the CEOs of several of the world’s biggest companies in the AI space, including meetings with representatives of Google, Microsoft and Anthropic.
Biden is scheduled to meet with experts at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on June 20 at 4 p.m. The event will be streamed on the official White House YouTube channel.
The U.S. Senate recently met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, IBM Privacy Trust Director Christina Montgomery, and New York University’s Gary Marcus during a hearing on AI policy. .
In his testimony, Altman said he believes the U.S. government should create a federal regulatory agency to oversee, license and account for the burgeoning AI sector. Marcus agreed with the idea, but IBM’s Montgomery disagreed, saying it was her company’s view that Congress should take a more surgical approach to AI governance.
The AI debate comes at a time when the U.S. government has yet to develop a comprehensive strategy to legislate AI development and production.
While Europe, China and the UK have passed or are considering comprehensive legislation in the AI space, the US still lags behind in both comprehensive cryptocurrency and AI regulation.
As AI powers many of the cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3 industries, detangling the two sectors is becoming increasingly difficult.
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