Chair De La Rosa recaps prior AI hearing and witness concerns
Chair De La Rosa welcomes attendees, notes last week's Committee of the Whole heard nearly 100 witnesses from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google, former employees, experts, and public, and says their message was that frontier AI poses risks.
Thank you, Speaker Menon.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa, and I am the chair of the Committee on Technology.
Welcome to our hearing on continuing discussions about the risks posed by artificial intelligence.
Last week, in this very same room, in a meeting of the Committee of the Whole, we heard testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including representatives from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google, their former employees,
technical experts, academics, elected officials, and members of the public.
Despite their different points of view, their message was more
or less consistent.
The pace and progress of frontier AI models does pose a risk.
Some called for frontier developers to slow down.
Others focused on alignment and control mechanisms, warnings of superintelligence, mass surveillance, and agentic policing, as well as political bias and discriminatory tendencies.
Several witnesses raised concerns about the loss of model control and others warned about the potential loss of jobs.
However, much of the testimony returned to a common set of recommendations.
Transparency from AI developers, credible safety measures, third-party evaluators, and protection for personal data.