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Politicians and Tech Leaders Gather to Discuss Regulating AI

... “I can’t recall when we’ve had people representing large corporations or the private sector come before us and plead with us to regulate them,” said Durbin.

Montgomery called for “precision regulation” that would see rules governing AI in specific use-cases, rather than general regulation. “A chatbot that can share restaurant recommendations or draft an email has different impacts on society than a system that supports decisions on credit, housing, or employment,” she testified at “Oversight of AI: Rules for Artificial Intelligence.”

“How the technology might affect elections, intellectual-property theft, news coverage, military operations and even diversity and inclusion initiatives were among the topics covered,” The Wall Street Journal summarized, noting that “the hearing demonstrated the wide-ranging concerns prompted by rapid consumer adoption of AI systems like ChatGPT,” which rocketed to 100 million consumer users in two months. ...

Ownership of the data that AI trains on was a topic of discussion, with Altman saying “people should be able to opt out of having their data be used to train those models,” according to Politico. That subject had its own hearing Wednesday at a House session on “AI and Copyright Law.” ...

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