Figures from the technology industry such as Elon Musk, from X, Mark Zuckerberg, from Meta, or Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, participated this Wednesday in a session of the US Senate, where they agreed on the need to regulate the Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The closed-door meeting of the US Senate, called by the leader of the Democrats in the upper house of Congress, Chuck Schumer, also included the executive directors of OpenAI, Sam Altman, from Google, Sundar Pichai and Microsoft, Satya Nadella, among others.
Schumer asked businesspeople if they agreed to regulate AI, and “cEvery one of them raised their hand despite having different opinions“, revealed the senator to the media, after the session.
The leader of the Democrats in the upper house called this forum so that senators could learn about the benefits and challenges of AI, which took a big step last year with the launch of Chat GPT, a tool capable of writing texts as if it were a human.
Schumer highlighted that he is convinced that Congress “You have to try to act, no matter how difficult the process is.“, given this technology that is advancing at a rapid pace.
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Speaking to the media upon leaving the Senate, Musk, head of X (formerly Twitter), Space-X and Tesla, warned of the risk that AI could be harmful.
Elon Musk defended its regulation and, in this sense, considered that the meeting in the Senate was “very important for the future of human civilization".
"Schumer asked us to raise our hands to see if we were in favor of regulating AI, and I think almost all of us did.“, he underlined.
In turn, Zuckerberg highlighted to the senators that “Congress should collaborate with AI in favor of innovation and for there to be guarantees".
"This is an emerging technology so there are issues that must be addressed and ultimately it is up to authorities to do so“, he pointed out, cited in a statement published by Meta, the company that owns the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Around 60 of the 100 senators attended the session, although there were voices that criticized the impossibility of the media being present.
Microsoft President Brad Smith on Tuesday supported the US government in establishing an independent agency to regulate the use of AI.
Just two months ago, the country's large technology companies accepted a series of security measures proposed by the White House that include the creation of internal and external tests of their AI systems before making them public.
The US government also said that it is working to translate the voluntary commitments of North American companies into an international framework on the use of AI, adding that it has already held consultations with countries such as Brazil, Canada, South Korea, France, Germany, India , Israel, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
