Chuck Schumer spoke to reporters and expressed that he had a very productive meeting with Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and a tech billionaire, recently met with US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss electric vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) related issues, according to media reports cited by Reuters.
The meeting reportedly lasted for an hour, after which Musk spoke to journalists and mentioned that they discussed the future and talked about AI and the economy.
Schumer, a Democrat, also spoke to reporters and expressed that
he had a very productive meeting with Musk, who is also the CEO of the
social media platform, Twitter.
"We talked about Buffalo [New
York] — Tesla has a large plant in Buffalo. And we talked about AI," he
said.
Earlier this month, Schumer said: "He had launched an
effort to establish rules on artificial intelligence to address national
security and education concerns, as use of programs like ChatGPT becomes
widespread."
Schumer was of the view that "he had drafted and circulated a
framework that outlines a new regulatory regime that would prevent
potentially catastrophic damage to our country while simultaneously making
sure the US advances and leads in this transformative technology".
Last
month, Elon Musk, 51, alongside a group of AI experts and technology
executives wrote an open letter in which they called for a six-month pause
in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's GPT 4, citing potential
risks to society and civilisation.
The letter, issued by Future
of Life Institute, read: "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once
we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be
manageable."
In the US Capital, legislators are stressing AI regulations. A
Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee chair Mark Warner in a letter sent
to AI CEOs on Wednesday asked them to step forward and address concerns
posed by AI.
On Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo while
talking to reporters said: The Biden administration is working as
aggressively as possible to figure out our approach to AI.
"The
challenge is you don't want to stifle innovation in a brand new area with
massive potential. The risks related to misinformation and deep fakes
etcetera are massive," noted Raimondo.
Earlier this year, CEO
SpaceX Musk met two top White House officials in Washington and discussed
how the administration and his company could move forward to produce
electric vehicles in the country.
