OpenAI CEO to testify before Congress alongside ‘AI pause’ advocate and IBM exec
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 chief privacy and trust officer, Christina Montgomery — who is a member of the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee — and New York University 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
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 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.
NYU’s 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.”
Altman and 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
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