You can’t say you haven’t been warned.
Fox Business headlines this from US Senator Josh Hawley: https://www.foxbusiness.com/
FB reports:
“Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is not happy that big tech CEOs are in Washington, D.C., for a closed-door meeting with federal lawmakers.
At Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s invitation, top tech leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, among others, went to the Capitol on Wednesday to discuss artificial intelligence safeguards in a private forum with lawmakers. Hawley, a vocal critic of big-tech companies, told Fox News Digital in an interview the meeting should have been public. He also warned against letting liberal tech CEOs ‘write the rules of the road’ for lawmakers to follow, saying they will ‘absolutely’ use AI tech to censor conservatives and interfere in elections.
‘If Schumer is going to invite all of the nation’s biggest tech CEOs here to the Capitol, this ought to be open to the public,’ Hawley said. ‘These are the people who have tried to rig elections in the past. These are people who suppressed reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop. These are the people who kick conservatives off social media. Now they’re all behind closed doors. They won’t answer questions in public. They won’t talk to press. They won’t do anything before the public where you can see it, and now they want to give Congress advice on how to have us help them make more money on AI. And I’m just I’m not interested in them.’”
Perhaps an unspoken problem here is that aging US Senators may not have an understanding of AI or the doings of Big Tech and social media.
But Senator Hawley is right to raise the red flag of caution here. And no AI is required to understand that.
