Well, if any of you--I'm going to get tight on time here--but Lori Trahan and Adam Schiff and I introduced a bill to give the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) the authority to essentially say you have to be able to--if you're using these codes, you have to have--your algorithms are private, that's fine, but you have to have the ability to reach in and inspect, which raises the question of is that the right entity?
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Sean Casten
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At a 2023 House hearing, Sean Casten said he had introduced a bill giving the Federal Communications Commission authority to inspect companies' private algorithms and that someone serving the public interest must have audit rights.
U.S. Representative from Illinois and Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyOctober 18, 2023House Science, Space, and Technology joint subcommittee hearing, Balancing Knowledge and Governance: Foundations for Effective Risk Management of Artificial Intelligence
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And I think there's been a lot of other conversations about other regulatory tools, and, you know, those may or may not be appropriate, but liability seems like underdiscussed, I think. Mr. Casten. Well, if any of you--I'm going to get tight on time here--but Lori Trahan and Adam Schiff and I introduced a bill to give the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) the authority to essentially say you have to be able to--if you're using these codes, you have to have--your algorithms are private, that's fine, but you have to have the ability to reach in and inspect, which raises the question of is that the right entity? You know, do they have the technical horsepower to do that? And could you even have a single national entity with that jurisdiction, given as the servers are all over the world? And if any of you have thoughts or criticisms, I'd love to engage with you because I do think it's this meaty question that, at least from where I sit, you have to have someone with auditor rights who has the public interest at heart. If any of you have comments on that before I get pulled, I'm happy to hear. Dr. Bender.
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- Casten explicitly questions which institution should hold the authority and whether a single national regulator can exercise it globally.
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