X’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are among tech leaders headed to Capitol Hill to discuss AI regulation.
Lawmakers, industry leaders, civil rights leaders and tech industry advocates say the United States can’t afford a repeat of Congress’s approach to crafting social media legislation, which became mired in partisan battles, industry lobbying and competing congressional priorities, especially because of AI’s unique potential to discriminate and its critical role in national security.
“The role we have is to try to explain as best we can what we think is going to happen … where dangers might lie and let the leaders decide what they want to do,” he said. But even the guest list could generate fireworks, thanks to the opposing views of many attendees and even some personal tensions. Some executives, including Altman, say they plan to advocate for a new government agency tasked with regulating AI at Wednesday’s event. But lawmakers have already bristled at the idea, as some warn against expansion of government and others fret such an institution would be vulnerable to regulatory capture. Google has
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