OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first appearance before Congress on May 16 to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) regulation in the United States during a hearing on oversight. Also testifying will be IBM’s VP of trust and privacy, Christina Montgomery, and NYU emeritus professor Gary Marcus.
US Senate hearing on #AI Oversight, with @OpenAI CEO @sama, IBM’s @_ChristinaMont and NYU Emeritus Prof. @garymarcus, Tuesday am 10ET. https://t.co/VwiR77F52f
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) May 10, 2023
Details remain scarce concerning the hearing’s agenda. Its title, “Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence,” implies the discussion will center on safety and privacy, as does the roster of scheduled attendees.
The hearing will mark OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s first on-the-record testimony before Congress, though he recently attended a roundtable discussion with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House alongside the CEOs of Alphabet, Microsoft, and Anthropic.
Joining Altman will be IBM’s VP of trust and privacy, Christina Montgomery, a member of the U.S. National A.I. Advisory Committee, and NYU emeritus professor Gary Marcus, a New York Times best-selling author.
Marcus recently made waves in the AI community with his full-throated support for a community-driven “pause” on AI development for six months.
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The idea of an AI pause was defined in an open letter published on the Future of Life Institute website on March 22. As of this article’s publishing, it has more than 27,500 signatures.
The letter’s stated goal is to “call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”
Sam Altman and Christina Montgomery are among those opposed to the pause.
For Montgomery’s part, her sentiments were explained in an in-depth IBM company blog post she authored entitled “Don’t pause AI development, prioritize ethics instead,” wherein she made a case for a more precise approach to AI regulation:
“A blanket pause on AI’s training, together with existing trends that seem to be de-prioritizing investment in industry AI ethics efforts, will only lead to additional harm and setbacks.”
According to another IBM blog post penned in part by Montgomery, the company believes AI should be regulated based on risk — it’s worth noting that, to the best of our knowledge, IBM doesn’t currently have any…
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