Musk Discusses Artificial Intelligence With Schumer on Capitol Hill

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Capitol Hill on April 26, and the two talked about artificial intelligence (AI) and electric vehicles.

โ€œWe talked about the future,โ€ Musk told reporters after finishing his meeting, which lasted about an hour. โ€œWe talked about AI and the economy.โ€

Schumer told reporters that the two โ€œhad a very good meeting.โ€ The New York congressman added, โ€œWe talked about Buffalo, Tesla has a large plant in Buffalo. And we talked about AI.โ€

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On April 13, Schumer announced a plan to establish rules for AI to address national security and education concerns, considering the rising popularity of programs like ChatGPT.

His proposal would require companies to allow independent experts to review and test AI technologies prior to their public release or update and gives users access to those results.

โ€œIโ€™ve worked with some of the leading AI practitioners and thought leaders to create a framework that outlines a new regulatory regime that would prevent potentially catastrophic damage to our country while simultaneously making sure the U.S. advances and leads in this transformative technology,โ€ Schumer said in a statement at the time.

Schumerโ€™s office cited Chinaโ€™s release of draft rules on regulating AI days earlier, calling it โ€œa wake-up call to the nation.โ€

โ€œLeader Schumer believes that it is imperative for the United States to lead and shape the rules governing such a transformative technology and not permit China to lead on innovation or write the rules of the road,โ€ his office said.

Chinaโ€™s draft rules, announced by the Cyberspace Administration of China on April 11, stated that content โ€œgenerated by generative artificial intelligence should embody core socialist valuesโ€ and shall not contain anything that โ€œsubverts the state powerโ€ or โ€œadvocates the overthrow of the socialist system.โ€

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When Schumer posted his proposed plan on Twitter, which he called a โ€œfirst-of-its-kindโ€ effort on AI, Musk applauded the senatorโ€™s announcement.

โ€œGood news! AI regulation will be far more important than it may seem today,โ€ Muskย wrote.

Musk has been raising the alarm about risks associated with AI. In March, he joined over 1,000 experts in signing an open letter calling on all AI labs to โ€œimmediately pauseโ€ developing systems more powerful than OpenAIโ€™s Chat GPT-4.

โ€œAI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity,โ€ the letter says. โ€œPowerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.โ€

Last week, in an interview with Fox, Muskย warnedย that AI has the potential to destroy civilizations.ย 

Byย Frank Fang

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