Anthropic CEO Testifies In US Senate To Support AI Regulations

Leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate, Chuck Schumer (photo: Twitter @SenSchumer)

JAKARTA - CEO of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, Dario Amodei, will testify on July 25 at a US Senate hearing on artificial intelligence when policymakers are considering regulatory potential for this fast-growing technology, Senate panel announced on Tuesday, July 18.

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and Law said it would hold a hearing with the title "Supervision of Artificial Intelligence: Principles for Regulation" that would include Amodei, who leads Alphabet-backed startup, Google parent, as well as professors of computer science, Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell.

"We have an obligation to address the potential threat and risk of artificial intelligence before they become real," said US Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, chairman of the subcommittee. "We are on the verge of a new era, with grave consequences for workers, consumer privacy, and our society."

"The more we learn about the effect of AI potential on our country, the more worried we should be. We need strong rules to protect consumers, workers and families from uncontrolled technological developments," said Republican lead senator at the panel, Senator Josh Hawley.

US President Joe Biden met with CEOs of leading artificial intelligence companies in May, including Amedoi, and confirmed that they should ensure their products are safe before use.

Separately, Democratic Party Leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, said on Tuesday that his plans to bring AI into annual defense laws would include many provisions related to artificial intelligence. This includes reports on artificial intelligence regulation in the financial services industry, which has used them to prevent fraud and risk management.

The report will help push federal financial regulators to adopt and adapt to changes in artificial intelligence that disrupt the industry, Schumer's office said.

The law will direct government agencies to conduct risk studies of artificial intelligence, create "bug bounce" programs for artificial intelligence, and require the development of artificial intelligence tools and machine learning "to better use narrative intelligence technology to monitor and assess information campaigns by providing comprehensive analysis of narrative, language, information patterns, and disinformation networks," the Schumer office said.