Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer's upcoming artificial intelligence forum, which includes tech executives like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, will now also include influential labor and civil rights advocates. The advocates attending the meeting are AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights President and CEO Maya Wiley, and AI accountability researcher Deb Raji. This addition to the guest list comes after criticism that the initial list only included industry leaders and lacked diversity.
Shuler has been actively involved in discussing AI's impact on workers, particularly representing SAG-AFTRA, the actors union currently on strike over concerns about job displacement due to AI-generated content. Wiley has raised concerns about algorithmic bias and recently co-authored a letter urging the Biden administration to ensure federal contractors are not abusing consumer data or promoting discriminatory algorithms. Raji's research focuses on algorithmic auditing to prevent false arrests, unfair hiring decisions, and inaccurate medical diagnoses.
Schumer aims to use this closed-door gathering, called an AI Insight Forum, as a starting point to develop bipartisan legislation for regulating AI. The forum's extended guest list was unveiled following social media criticism that it lacked female representation and only included industry leaders.
The attendance of labor and civil rights advocates was confirmed prior to the initial reports about the forum, according to an anonymous source familiar with the plans. The event has been seen as a signal of the government's commitment to regulating the tech industry.
The list of industry guests has also expanded to include Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir. Schumer has been emphasizing his work on AI regulation for several months, highlighting the need for a new policymaking process that allows the United States to keep up with other countries' proposals in this area, such as those from the European Union.
Shuler has been actively involved in discussing AI's impact on workers, particularly representing SAG-AFTRA, the actors union currently on strike over concerns about job displacement due to AI-generated content. Wiley has raised concerns about algorithmic bias and recently co-authored a letter urging the Biden administration to ensure federal contractors are not abusing consumer data or promoting discriminatory algorithms. Raji's research focuses on algorithmic auditing to prevent false arrests, unfair hiring decisions, and inaccurate medical diagnoses.
Schumer aims to use this closed-door gathering, called an AI Insight Forum, as a starting point to develop bipartisan legislation for regulating AI. The forum's extended guest list was unveiled following social media criticism that it lacked female representation and only included industry leaders.
The attendance of labor and civil rights advocates was confirmed prior to the initial reports about the forum, according to an anonymous source familiar with the plans. The event has been seen as a signal of the government's commitment to regulating the tech industry.
The list of industry guests has also expanded to include Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir. Schumer has been emphasizing his work on AI regulation for several months, highlighting the need for a new policymaking process that allows the United States to keep up with other countries' proposals in this area, such as those from the European Union.