![]() There was a general consensus among the participants that “this is massive and has to be regulated now,” Steyer said. (The Federal Election Commission-an independent regulatory agency-just missed a chance to take stronger action against deepfake campaign ads, with its 12-person board split down the middle on a proposal to designate A.I.-made advertising “fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority.”) Steyer characterized Biden as “really well-prepped” and “really engaged” and said that the President asked “really thoughtful questions.” “He was really focused on the implications for democracy,” Steyer said. He had previously “dropped by” a meeting Vice President Kamala Harris held with executives from top A.I. This is the first time the President had held a lengthy meeting himself with A.I. that met with President Joe Biden in San Francisco last week. Steyer was among a group of technology experts and civil society groups concerned about A.I. “They can’t even pass privacy legislation, so what makes you think they are going to ever pass any kind of meaningful A.I. Jim Steyer, the CEO of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that advocates for media and technology literacy and accountability for companies building tech, told me he was skeptical the federal government would act in a timely manner. developer, a company deploying A.I., or a regulator. systems that are nonetheless useful, and also that the term itself was highly subjective, as different levels of interpretability might be called for depending on whether the information is being provided to a consumer, an A.I. experts pointed out that “explainability” may be too high a bar, technically, for many A.I. Others questioned whether Schumer’s insistence that “innovation must be our North Star” could be used to justify a lighter touch regulatory regime than many critics of Big Tech think is warranted. ![]() laws may get sidelined or delayed as the process plays out.” Winters told the New York Times that Schumer’s approach was “frustrating and disappointing” and expressed concerns that “other stronger, more protective A.I. government have already made over the past year on A.I. That all sounds good, but some, such as Ben Winters, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, questioned whether Schumer’s call for a new round of Insight Forums risked duplicating or negating the nascent efforts Congress and other parts of the U.S. Insight Forums” on Capitol Hill this fall that will differ in format from traditional Congressional hearings, with the idea being to hear from experts on how best to tackle a range of issues around A.I. ![]() Schumer rightly called explainability “perhaps the greatest challenge we face,” since computer scientists haven’t come up with great ways of unpacking the factors that weigh most heavily in the decision-making of deep learning algorithms, which underpin most of the current enthusiasm for A.I.įinally, Schumer announced his intention to hold a series of “A.I. system arrived at any particular output was essential. And he said that enabling users to understand why an A.I. must be developed in ways that reinforce, rather than undermine American values-that is the foundations bit. from doing so in ways that unfairly exploit individuals and consumers and erode creators’ intellectual property rights. for “extortionist financial gain or political upheaval.” He also said it meant security for the American workforce, which might see significant job losses, particularly among the already hard-hit middle class, from the widespread deployment of generative A.I.Īccountability, he said, meant preventing the companies creating and using A.I. Security, Schumer said, meant security from the threat that rogue actors or hostile nations would use A.I. Policy.” SAFE is an acronym that stands for security, accountability, protecting our foundations (the F in SAFE), and explainability. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), in an address in Washington, unveiled what he called his “SAFE Innovation Framework for A.I.
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