Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hosted a number of "insight" forums on AI last year inviting a mixture of Tech Companies, Nonprofits, Trade Associations, Labor Unions, Think Tanks and Academics to comment on different sub-topics of relevance to regulating AI.
Techpolicy.press has done the lovely work of collecting all their statements into one place, along with creating a more in-depth accounting of each forum, and I would recommend taking a look. These statements have been helpful for me to get a sense of what people are saying (e.g. what does the American Enterprise Institute think about AI's effects on jobs[1]), as well as how the framing of an issue changes based on who's presenting it (e.g. how privacy is addressed by Big Tech vs unions[2]).
Forum Topics:
- Forum One: Introduction
- Forum Two: Innovation
- Forum Three: Workforce
- Forum Four: High Impact AI
- Forum Five: Democracy and Elections
- Forum Six: Privacy and Liability
- Forum Seven: Transparency & Explainability and Intellectual Property & Copyright
- Forum Eight: Risk, Alignment, & Guarding Against Doomsday Scenarios
- Forum Nine: National Security
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They're skeptical: "AI is likely to strengthen democracy in its use as an educational tool...AI is more likely to save humanity than to wipe it out."
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Big Tech thinks we should craft legislation particular to the context, labor unions are concerned with how AI can be invasive in the workplace.