On Tuesday, January 9, 2024 the Center for AI Policy held a briefing for House staff on Navigating AI's Future: Understanding the AI Executive Order's Impact on U.S. Policy.
The panelists Bill Drexel (Center for New American Security), Samuel Hammond (Foundation for American Innovation), Elise Phillips (Public Knowledge), and Daniel Colson (AI Policy Institute), moderated by Jason Green-Lowe (Center for AI Policy), discussed the policies in Biden's recent Executive Order on AI, what the EO is missing, and what is needed from Congress.
If you couldn't make it but are interested in learning more, a recording of the event is available here:
“There's a general threat model that I have where AI, no matter where it's applied, massively increases the throughput demands on our institutions."
—Samuel Hammond, Senior Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation
“I think a lot of people are looking to their experience with social media and the certain significant harms from that as a lesson for what happens when the tech industry oversees dramatic social changes.”
—Daniel Colson, Executive Director at the AI Policy Institute
“We really need to give AI engineers from China and other countries, particularly adversaries, ways to stay in the United States, which they want to do. It helps us and it cripples them in an extremely important technology.”
—Bill Drexel, Associate Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
“A lot of people in the executive branch and in the legislative branch get burned out, as I’m sure you guys are aware. And so we need to provide more resources to these agencies. And we need to provide a healthy work environment which means great benefits, higher salaries, and incentives for people to come and stay.”
—Elise Phillips, Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge
See here for a full text transcript.
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