More than 20 tech industry leaders will meet Wednesday behind closed doors with U.S. senators as part of a closer look into how Congress can regulate artificial intelligence.
Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are among those attending. The leaders of several AI companies, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, will also join the discussion.
The gathering is part of a series being led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a bipartisan group of senators in a larger effort to craft groundbreaking AI law. Ahead of the first of his so-called “AI Insight forums,” Schumer argued lawmakers must balance AI innovation in medicine, education and national security against the technology’s risks.
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