{"id":1945099,"date":"2023-06-06T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-to-host-closed-door-briefing-on-ai-and-military-for-senators\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:10:22","slug":"schumer-to-host-closed-door-briefing-on-ai-and-military-for-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-to-host-closed-door-briefing-on-ai-and-military-for-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer to hold private briefing on AI and military for senators."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschumer-to-host-closed-door-briefing-on-ai-and-military-for-senators%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senate Majority Leader Plans Hearings on Artificial Intelligence<\/h2>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is taking steps to understand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-authorities-seize-historic-amount-of-illegally-grown-marijuana\/\" title=\"Los Angeles authorities seize historic amount of illegally grown marijuana\">growing industry<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-impeaching-incitement-to-canceling-conservatism\/\" title=\"From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism\">artificial intelligence<\/a>. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thank-god-there-wasnt-a-twitter-meghan-mccain-admits-she-was-really-stupid-when-she-was-younger\/\" title=\"\u2018Thank God There Wasn\u2019t A Twitter\u2019: Meghan McCain Admits She Was \u2018Really Stupid\u2019 When She Was Younger\">recently announced plans<\/a> to host several new hearings, including the first classified one to cover the military&#8217;s use of the technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As AI transforms our world, the Senate must keep abreast of the extraordinary potential, and risks, AI presents,&#8221; Schumer wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Schumer sent a letter in partnership with Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Todd Young (R-IN) on Tuesday to discuss three hearings planned for over the summer for senators. The hearings would cover where AI is currently, the frontier of the technology, and how the technology is being used by the Department of Defense and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-attorney-sidney-powell-confirms-alleged-dominion-servers-in-germany-were-confiscated-video\/\" title=\"HUGE! Attorney Sidney Powell CONFIRMS Alleged Dominion Servers in Germany Were Confiscated -- VIDEO\">intelligence community<\/a>. That third hearing will be classified.<\/p>\n<h3>Working with Experts to Regulate AI<\/h3>\n<p>Schumer said he had been working closely with the White House, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on the plans. He previously announced he was working on legislation with experts that would regulate AI in a manner acceptable to Republicans and Democrats. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) has introduced legislation to create a task force investigating AI policies and their effect on civil liberties.<\/p>\n<h3>Industry Executives Call for Regulation<\/h3>\n<p>Industry executives have called for regulation of the sector. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has pushed for national and international regulators to track the technology&#8217;s development. The European Union is also considering legislation that would place bans on biometric surveillance, emotional recognition, predictive policing, and other AI-powered products. It would also require AI products to be transparent about the data used in their training.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates on the upcoming hearings and the future of AI regulation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to host several new hearings on artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The hearings will cover where AI is currently, the frontier of the technology, and how the technology is being used by the Department of Defense and intelligence community.<\/li>\n<li>Schumer is working with experts to regulate AI in a manner acceptable to both Republicans and Democrats.<\/li>\n<li>Industry executives have called for regulation of the sector.<\/li>\n<li>The European Union is considering legislation that would place bans on biometric surveillance, emotional recognition, predictive policing, and other AI-powered products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will hold hearings to explore the expanding field of artificial intelligence. The hearings will include the first classified session to discuss the military&#8217;s use of AI. Schumer, along with Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Todd Young (R-IN), sent a letter on Tuesday to announce the plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7060,4920,4505,4070,4411,3709],"class_list":["post-1945099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-briefing","tag-hold","tag-military","tag-private","tag-schumer","tag-senators"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}