Heard on Capitol Hill: ‘I can’t recall when we’ve had people come before us and plead with us to regulate them’

AI in Healthcare May 18, 2023
Dave Pearson

Washington has been all over AI this week. One highlight: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifying strongly in favor of federal AI oversight. Another: a bipartisan bench of senators peppering Altman and two other AI experts with questions ranging from the sublime to the silly (and making some edifying points of their own).

Both episodes occurred during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law. Held Tuesday and titled “Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence,” the session produced some notable quotes. Here’s a sampler of memorable words spoken specifically about AI regulation.

‘We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models.’—Sam Altman, ChatGPT mastermind

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