WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of electric car maker Tesla (TSLA.O) and social media platform Twitter, met with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday. We discussed the issue of artificial intelligence.
“We talked about the future,” Musk told reporters after the meeting, which lasted about an hour. “We talked about AI and the economy.”
Schumer’s office confirmed the meeting.
Earlier this month, Schumer said he had launched efforts to establish rules on artificial intelligence to address national security and education issues as the use of programs like ChatGPT became more widespread.
Schumer drafted “a framework outlining a new regulatory regime that will ensure that the United States advances and leads in this revolutionary technology while preventing potentially catastrophic damage to our nation.” and distributed it.
In March, Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives said in an open letter citing potential risks to society that they would not develop a system more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4. I asked him to stop for a month.
“Powerful AI systems should only be developed if we believe their effects are positive and their risks manageable,” says the letter published by the Future of Life Institute.
There is a growing push for AI regulation in Washington. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner on Wednesday sent a letter to her CEO of a major AI urging them to take steps to address their concerns.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimond told reporters Wednesday that the Biden administration is working “as aggressively as possible to understand our approach” to AI.
“The challenge is that we don’t want to stifle innovation in an entirely new area with great potential,” says Raimondo. “The risks associated with misinformation, deepfakes, etc. are enormous.”
In January, Musk met with two senior White House officials in Washington to discuss how Tesla and President Joe Biden’s administration could work together to advance the production of electric vehicles. I visited Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy at the first meeting.
Reported by David Shepardson.Edited by Leslie Adler
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