De La Rosa asks companies about wage gaps and AI literacy investment

My last question before I start to turn over to my colleagues, you know, we are concerned, I am concerned as a technology chair about public infrastructure to make our communities literate on AI

and have a better understanding of how AI impacts their life and also to safeguard them from the proliferation of AI.

Your companies and your CEOs have captured the top percent of the world's incomes,

in my opinion, widening the wage gap and the income inequality in our city and throughout.

Do your companies have a mission?

Do they have any type of understanding of the impacts that those wage gaps have in communities?

And specifically, are there any resources that are being deployed in order to help stand up infrastructure in cities, municipalities, states where you all are headquartered?

We can start with Swire.

So I will answer your question in two ways.

First, to your point on AI literacy and education, education is core to opportunity.

And that's why OpenAI is proud to have partnered with the American Federation of Teachers.

We have a $10 million partnership, including a training facility in New York City, because we believe first that teachers need to be prepared

to introduce AI literacy and AI responsibility into the classroom.

Look, teachers should remain in charge.

And so we want them to be empowered to teach the next generation how to use AI safely and responsibly.

To your broader question about economic opportunity, I'd be happy to follow up with some policy proposals that OpenAI recently put forward that address exactly that question.

Look, a future where AI exacerbates economic inequality is not a future that we want.

We have started thinking through creative policy proposals to help shift the trajectory of technology and how it's impacting the economy.

And we are committed to working with policymakers to begin piloting those ideas.

ideas and putting them into practice.

Thank you, Mr.

Cahill.

Chair, thank you very much.

This is such an important topic, such an important question.

So thank you for asking it.

I listened with great interest to your opening remarks where you spoke about digital divide and AI literacy and making sure that New Yorkers fully benefit from this technology.

Really couldn't agree with you more on all of that.

Meta's vision is to put personal superintelligence into the hands of everyone.

All New Yorkers that want to use it to pursue their own aspirations.

Our Muse product, for example, is free.

And I mentioned our Muse for small business a little earlier, and we'll be happy to talk a little bit more about that.

As the day moves on, I also wanted to mention as well that we have our work, America's Workforce Academy, which we're investing in, and also our Futures for Everyone Fund.

So those are just two examples I wanted to reference as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ms.

Friend?

Yes, ma'am.

As I mentioned earlier, Google has investments in AI upskilling to address exactly this challenge of ensuring that current generations and the next generation are well equipped to benefit from.

from AI and to leverage it in their careers and in their personal lives.

The mission of Google is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Our approach to AI is very consistent with this.

The other thing I'll note is that, again, early research into

impacts of AI on labor demonstrate that AI tools actually upskill those

who are at the lower end of the wage scale, that in fact it helps people move up the value chain because it can boost people's expertise.

So we're very optimistic about the ability of everyday Americans to really leverage

AI tools for their own economic benefit as well as personal benefit.

Thank you, Mr.

Graham.

Yeah, likewise, first, we believe in two things are very important to happen here.

The first is the science of the economic impacts of AI, including on labor, wages, and the like.

And we have tried to build what I think is the world's best team on this and publish as much as we can.

In addition, my understanding is we do have training on using and speeding up on AI for exactly this reason.

We share that mission very deeply.

And I will say again, we are troubleshooting the video and I will be back with you very shortly.

Thank you.

I'm sure you have the best in the nation helping you out there.