United States President Joe Biden will discuss artificial intelligence (AI) with a panel of Silicon Valley experts on June 20 between capital campaign stops in California.
The president will meet with at least eight experts, including renowned researchers and AI security experts. According to the White House, the subject The discussion will be “the Biden administration’s commitment to seizing the opportunities and managing the risks of artificial intelligence.”
According to an Associated Press report, the list of attendees understand Jim Steyer, founder of Common Sense Media; Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology; Fei-Fei Li, co-director of the Human-Centered AI Institute at Stanford; Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League; and Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Institute.
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This group is notable for the efforts of its individual members in education, policy, safety, and harm mitigation. Previous meetings with White House officials have included CEOs from some of the biggest companies in the global AI industry – including meetings with representatives from Google, Microsoft and Anthropic.
Biden will meet with the experts at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on June 20 in a series of talks the president is participating in at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The event will be streamed on the official White House YouTube channel.
The US Senate recently met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, IBM Privacy and Trust Officer Christina Montgomery, and New York University’s Gary Marcus in a hearing to discuss privacy policy. of AI.
During his testimony, Altman expressed his belief that the U.S. government should establish a federal regulator to provide oversight, licensing, and accountability for the burgeoning AI industry. While Marcus agreed with the idea, IBM’s Montgomery dissented, saying his company believes Congress should take a more surgical approach to AI governance.
Discussions around AI come at a time when the US government has yet to define a comprehensive strategy for legislating the development and production of AI.
While Europe, China, and the UK have passed or are currently weighing bills with comprehensive legislative packages for the AI industry, the US still lags behind in comprehensive regulations on cryptocurrency and AI.
Untangling the two sectors is becoming increasingly difficult as AI now underpins many cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3 industries.
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