Andreesen Horowitz companion Marc Andreesen speaks through the Fortune Global Forum.
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Technologists and advocates are once more set to go to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to debate with Senate leaders the perils and guarantees of synthetic intelligence.
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen, co-founder and basic companion of Andreessen Horowitz, and John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins, might be among the 21 attendees at the second AI Insights Forum hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, in response to a spokesperson for his workplace.
The session is a continuation of the Majority Leader’s effort to get the chamber in control on AI to find out how finest to method AI regulation. And it should probably embrace very completely different viewpoints on what the federal government’s function ought to be in regulating AI.
Andreessen not too long ago shared his perspective on AI in what he referred to as “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.”
“We consider any deceleration of AI will value lives,” he wrote within the weblog publish. “Deaths that had been preventable by the AI that was prevented from current is a type of homicide.”
While that concept could resonate with some lawmakers, particularly with regards to remaining aggressive in opposition to China on AI, others current at Tuesday’s dialogue will probably really feel in another way.
For instance, Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark can also be set to attend. The Future of Life Institute spearheaded the letter signed by Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk and different tech leaders calling for a pause on AI growth in order that acceptable security measures may very well be put in place.
Other tech leaders like Micron Executive Vice President Manish Bhatia, Revolution CEO Steve Case, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez might be in attendance. Academics and civil society leaders can even be a part of the dialogue, which can heart on innovation and discover how the federal government can stability sustaining a number one place in AI whereas making certain its security, in response to Schumer’s workplace.
Advocates slated to attend embrace NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson and AFL-CIO Technology Institute Director Amanda Ballantyne.
The first AI Innovation Forum in September, which was closed to the press, featured Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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