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Exclusive: Details on Schumer's next AI forum

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Oct 13, 2023
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pictured in the Capitol

Schumer on Sept. 13. Photo: Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's next forum on artificial intelligence will take place Oct. 24 and focus on innovation, his office shared exclusively with Axios.

Driving the news: The invite list for Schumer's second AI forum in the Capitol features AI companies like SeedAI and Cohere and VCs Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, along with academics and labor leaders.

  • Schumer's first forum featured CEOs of the biggest tech and AI companies including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk.
  • The series is meant to educate lawmakers and form the basis for legislation regulating AI.

What they're saying: "This Forum's focus on innovation – both the transformational innovation that pushes the boundaries of medicine, energy, and science, and the sustainable innovation necessary to drive advancements in security, accountability, and transparency in AI - will explore how the federal government can best ensure the US remains a leader in AI while developing better and safer system," reads the invitation.

Details: Invitees include:

  • Marc Andreessen – Andreessen Horowitz, Co-founder & General Partner
  • Ylli Bajraktari – SCSP, President & CEO
  • Amanda Ballantyne – AFL-CIO Technology Institute, Director
  • Manish Bhatia – Micron, Executive Vice President
  • Stella Biderman – ElutherAI, Executive Director
  • Austin Carson – SeedAI, Founder & President
  • Steve Case – Revolution, Chairman & CEO
  • Patrick Collison – Stripe, Co-founder & CEO
  • Tyler Cowen – George Mason University, Professor
  • John Doerr – Kleiner Perkins, Chairman
  • Jodi Forlizzi – Carnegie Mellon University, Professor
  • Aidan Gomez – Cohere, Co-founder & CEO
  • Derrick Johnson – NAACP, President & CEO
  • Sean McClain – AbSci, Founder & CEO
  • Alondra Nelson – The Center for Civil Rights and Technology, Senior Advisor
  • Kofi Nyarko – Morgan State University, Professor
  • Alexandra Reeve Givens – Center for Democracy and Technology , President & CEO
  • Rafael Reif – MIT, Former President
  • Evan Smith – Altana Technologies, Co-founder & CEO
  • Max Tegmark – Future of Life Institute, President
  • Suresh Venkatasubramanian – Brown University, Professor
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