Schumer, Sen. Todd Young, Sen. Martin Heinrich and Sen. Michael Rounds (R-SD) after the Nov. 1 forum. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
The next bipartisan Senate AI forum will tackle transparency, intellectual property and copyright, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office.
Driving the news: This week's insight forum is scheduled for Wednesday from 2-5pm ET.
- Senators have been meeting in closed-door sessions for months on a range of AI policy issues from elections to workforce development.
What they're saying: "This Forum will focus on two buckets of AI policy: 1) transparency and explainability and 2) intellectual property and copyright," Schumer's office says.
- "In the first bucket, the Forum will explore what transparency in AI means, what potential transparency regimes could look like, and the limitations of transparency in fixing every AI problem."
- "In the second bucket on intellectual property and copyright, the Forum will include a discussion on what AI means for creators and inventors, and what potential pathways look like for AI as a tool, addressing concerns around the use of copyrighted content in training and prompting, among other important issues."
The list of speakers includes:
- Rick Beato, Musician
- Ben Brooks, Stability AI
- Mike Capps, Howso
- Danielle Coffey, News Media Alliance
- Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA
- Ali Farhadi, Allen Institute for AI
- Zach Graves, Foundation for American Innovation
- Vanessa Holtgrewe, IATSE
- Mounir Ibrahim, Truepic
- Dennis Kooker, Sony Music Entertainment
- Curtis LeGeyt, National Association of Broadcasters
- Riley McCormack, DigiMarc
- Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
- Jon Schleuss, NewsGuild
- Ben Sheffner, Motion Picture Association
- Navrina Singh, Credo AI
- Ziad Sultan, Spotify
- Andrew Trask, OpenMined
- Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings
