Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Announcing The Third All-Senate Briefing On Artificial Intelligence
Last night, I informed my colleagues that we will hold our third all-Senate briefing on AI on Wednesday, July 26th.
Our first briefing focused on the state of AI as it stands today.
Our second briefing – held earlier this week – was a classified presentation on AI’s national security implications.
Our third briefing will turn to the future. We will hear from federal researchers and developers about where AI is headed in the years to come, and how it will continue to change our world. I encourage all members to attend this important briefing.
I am also pleased to announce that our presenters for that day will be: Rick Stevens, from the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, he’s the head of the NSF, and Dr. Kathleen Fisher, from the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Our moderator will be Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, Member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence & President of Dakota State University.
So it’s a broad range of presenters from academic, defense, energy, and scientific backgrounds. It’ll be a great discussion, and a truly important one, because senators have no time to waste learning as much about AI as possible.
AI is going to be a regular part of our lives from here on out. Rapid changes may at times seem frightening – but if applied correctly, AI promises to transform life on Earth for the better.
But there are real risks too. We must work now to anticipate the risks, mitigate them, and ensure that AI innovation is safe in the decades to come.
So I encourage all senators to attend the briefing on the 26th. I thank our presenters who will join us that day, and I thank my colleagues, particularly Senators Rounds, Heinrich, and Young for working together as a team and putting this briefing together.
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