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Schumer touts bipartisan support for AI regulation |
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) touted bipartisan support for artificial intelligence (AI) regulation as he pushes forward with the Senate's AI Insight Forum. | Schumer has been leading AI regulation talks along with a bipartisan group of lawmakers he assembled that includes Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). The second AI forum was held Tuesday. During the forum, Schumer said there was bipartisan consensus that the government needs to lead AI regulation and "significant resources" for the task. "The minimum number that was talked about was $32 billion," Schumer said, adding that even Republicans in the room agreed. The next AI Insight Forum will be held Wednesday, Schumer said, and will focus on two topics: the impacts of AI on the workforce and areas of "high impact." "Workforce is important, and that's positive and negative. How do we train people, because there's going to be millions of new jobs created by AI, but also how do we deal with people who might lose their jobs because of AI?" Schumer said. High-impact areas include sectors such as finance and health care, where AI is already having an effect, Schumer said. The forum will look at how AI is being deployed and if there are built-in biases impacting individuals. A future forum will be held on election reform, he said. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried took the stand in his criminal fraud trial Thursday in New York, but the judge announced jurors would be sent home for the day. Judge Lewis Kaplan sent the jurors home so he could hear parts of Bankman-Fried's testimony and decide what the jury would be allowed to hear, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Bankman-Fried will testify Friday to share his version of how his multibillion dollar cryptocurrency … |
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| Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, reduced its list of high-profile users exempt from content moderation rules since receiving recommendations from the Meta Oversight Board, the board said Thursday. Meta's cross-check program, first revealed by The Wall Street Journal in October 2021, provides an extra layer of review for some high-profile users before enforcement. The reporting on Meta’s content moderation … |
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Vice President Harris is traveling to the United Kingdom next week for a trip focused on artificial intelligence (AI), her office announced Thursday. The goal of the trip, which comes as the White House is expected to issue a major executive order on AI, is to advance the Biden-Harris administration's global leadership on the emerging technology. Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will travel to London and Bletchley Park, … |
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OpenAI forms team to study AI risks |
OpenAI has formed a team to study the "catastrophic risks" of AI, including "chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear" threats, TechCrunch reported. |
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X rolls out audio, video calling |
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has launched new audio and video calling capabilities for its Premium subscribers, Mashable reported. |
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- The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety will hold a hearing on "AI and the Future of Work: Moving Forward Together" Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — To help quickly spot safety defects on moving trains, Norfolk Southern said Thursday it has installed the first of more than a dozen automated inspection portals on its tracks in Ohio — not far from where one of its trains careened off the tracks in February and spilled hazardous … |
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