AI in Washington’s crosshairs but consensus far from certain

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The debate will be in focus on Tuesday when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes his first appearance before a Senate panel...

Staff broadly across the House and the Senate have basically woken up and are all being asked to get their arms around this, said Jack Clark, co-founder of high-profile AI startup Anthropic, whose CEO also attended the White House meeting..

And while lawmakers like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are determined to tackle AI issues in a bipartisan way, the fact is Congress is polarized, a Presidential election is next year, and lawmakers are addressing other big issues, like raising the debt ceiling...

The European Union has moved toward passing similar rules.. But the focus on risks seems insufficient to Democratic Senator Michael Bennet, who introduced a bill calling for a government AI task force..

Cullen OKeefe, an OpenAI research scientist, proposed in an April talk at Stanford University the creation of an agency that would mandate that companies obtain licenses before training powerful AI models or operating the data centers that facilitate them..

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