Carefully crafting a regulatory framework for managing the existential risks of AI will be one of the central challenges confronting Congress in the years and decades to come.
Ritchie Torres
U.S. representative from New York
Ritchie Torres said Congress would face the challenge of crafting a regulatory framework to manage the existential risks of AI.
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“Artificial intelligence is the most revolutionary technology of our time. It has the potential to be a weapon of mass disinformation, dislocation, and destruction,” said Rep. Torres. “Carefully crafting a regulatory framework for managing the existential risks of AI will be one of the central challenges confronting Congress in the years and decades to come. There is danger in both under-regulating and over-regulating. The simplest place to start is disclosure. All generative AI should be required to disclose itself as AI.
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- The phrase 'existential risks' is not defined in the passage and should not be expanded into a specific extinction mechanism without further evidence.
- In the same statement, Torres said there was danger in both under-regulating and over-regulating AI, called disclosure only a starting point, and said it was not a magic bullet.
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