Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman talk AI regs in Washington
The top executives from some of the world’s largest tech and web companies have concluded a closed-door meeting with U.S. lawmakers in Washington D.C., where they reportedly discussed AI technology and potential approaches to regulation.
The Sept.13 Senate 'AI Insight Forum' was organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and attended by 22 tech titans including X (Twitter) owner Elon Musk, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman from OpenAI and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Musk reportedly warned about existential risks from AI exclaiming “If someone takes us out as a civilization, all bets are off,” before adding:
Speaking to CNBC after the event, he said it is essential to have a “referee” for AI, implying that it needs to be regulated. Musk added that the meeting “may go down in history as being very important for the future of civilization.”
When questioned about AI regulation, he said almost everyone in the room agreed that it needs to happen.
There is an “overwhelming consensus” that there should be some AI regulation, Elon Musk says after today’s Capitol Hill AI meeting. pic.twitter.com/9QiPOffL3x
Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly said AI could help solve big problems, adding that the government needs to balance the “innovation side and building the right safeguards.”
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg advocated for open-source AI, stating: “Open source democratizes access to these tools, and that helps level the playing field and foster innovation for people and businesses.”
Meta and Microsoft recently teamed up to launch Llama 2, an open-source large language model from Meta that will feature on Microsoft’s Windows and cloud computing platform Azure.
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