Schumer to host AI forum; Zuckerberg and Musk among tech CEOs attending
WASHINGTON — More than a half-dozen leading tech CEOs will be among those attending a highly anticipated artificial intelligence event hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer next month, according to the senator's office.
The September 13 event will involve Google CEO Sundar Pichai and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; and Elon Musk, CEO of X, the company formerly known as Twitter.
It is the first of nine sessions Schumer has said will begin this fall to discuss the hardest questions that regulations on AI will seek to address, including how to protect workers, national security and copyright and to defend against "doomsday scenarios."
Also attending next month's event will be leading members of civil society, including members of groups representing workers, civil rights and art and entertainment, Schumer's office said, adding that the bipartisan event will not be open to the press.
The events, which Schumer has dubbed "AI Insight Forums," are set to bring experts from the private sector together with US lawmakers to help them understand the industry before they seek to create guardrails for AI.
Schumer has emphasized a deliberate approach to the issue, urging his colleagues to come up to speed on the basic facts of the technology rather than rush to pass legislation. Earlier this summer, Schumer held a series of closed-door senators-only briefings on AI, which included a first-ever classified briefing by US national security officials on artificial intelligence.
The guest list for next month's Insight Forum was first reported by Axios.