WASHINGTON — Tesla CEO Elon Musk says there was “overwhelming consensus” for regulation on synthetic intelligence after tech heavyweights gathered in Washington to debate AI.
Tech bosses attending the assembly included Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google boss Sundar Pichai.
Microsoft’s former CEO Invoice Gates and Microsoft’s present CEO Satya Nadella have been additionally in attendance.
The Wednesday assembly with US lawmakers was held behind closed doorways.
The discussion board was convened by Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer and included tech leaders in addition to civil rights advocates.
The ability of synthetic intelligence — for each good and unhealthy — has been the topic of eager curiosity from politicians all over the world.
In Could, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the corporate behind ChatGPT, testified earlier than a US Senate committee, describing the potential pitfalls of the brand new expertise.
ChatGPT and different comparable programmes can create extremely human-like solutions to questions – however can be wildly inaccurate.
“I believe if this expertise goes fallacious, it may go fairly fallacious…we need to be vocal about that,” Mr Altman stated. “We need to work with the federal government to forestall that from taking place,” he stated.
There are fears that the expertise may result in mass layoffs, turbo cost fraud and make misinformation extra convincing.
AI firms have additionally been criticised for coaching their fashions on information scraped from the web with out permission or fee to creators.
In April, Musk instructed the BBC: “I believe there ought to be a regulatory physique established for overseeing AI to ensure that it doesn’t current a hazard to the general public.”
In Wednesday’s assembly, he stated he needed a “referee” for synthetic intelligence.
“I believe we’ll most likely see one thing occur. I do not know on what timeframe or precisely the way it will present itself,” he instructed reporters after.
Zuckerberg stated that Congress “ought to have interaction with AI to assist innovation and safeguards”.
He added it was “higher that the usual is ready by American firms that may work with our authorities to form these fashions on vital points”.
Republican Senator Mike Rounds stated it might take time for Congress to behave.
“Are we able to exit and write laws? Completely not,” Mr Rounds stated. “We’re not there.”
Democrat Senator Cory Booker stated all contributors agreed “the federal government has a regulatory position” however crafting laws could be a problem. — BBC
