Osse asks Myers whether AI harms conflict with each other
Councilmember Chi Osse asks Anna Myers whether harms to children, workers, consumers, and catastrophic risks conflict. Myers says it's a 'yes and' and the public should be central to decisions. Asked what Americans fear most, she says they feel they have no say.
Thank you, Chair.
Ms.
Myers, there are a lot of issues in AI.
Currently, we hear about the harms that it has for our children, workers, consumers, and the coming threats of catastrophic risk.
Do any of these issues conflict with one another, and which should we address, if not all of them?
Yeah, thank you for the question.
This is a yes and question.
This is, we cannot silo these into separate scenarios.
Kids, workers, consumers, catastrophic risks can all be addressed in parallel to each other.
Just like the council has done a great job with their bill package of covering multiple things at once, we need to resist the urge to fight against each other on whose bill is more important at times or what we're protecting at times.
When I worked on the RAISE Act, we were working on C2PA at the same time.
There's no reason for us to stop the protections of catastrophic risks while at the same time working on transparency data.
The most important question we need to have right now is who is making these decisions, and it shouldn't be five CEOs.
It should be the American people and the...
electeds that they voted for.
Thank you.
And based on your conversations and polling, what are Americans most worried about when it comes to artificial intelligence?
Yeah, right now that they don't have a say in it.
It's no accident that we named our org Who Decides.
It's time for the American people to have a say in it and our polling showing that they feel that they are not a part of the conversation and that this is happening around them and they want to be in it.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Councilmember Hanif, followed by Maloney.